Auto Crash Data

There are number of road accidents happening thesedays.50% of them are car accidents. In the year 2003 there were about 6,328,000 car accidents in the United States. Most of the car accidents happen because of defective equipment in the car or by the careless act of the driver or by a drunken driver.

There are 17000 car accident deaths and 2, 00,000 injuries happening in US every year because of people who drive the car when they are fully drunk. These types of death happen every 30 minutes and injury every 2 minutes. This is becoming a major issue and the reckless drivers who drink and drive the car carelessly should be severely punished.

The drunken driver will drive his car at a high  speed and at curves he would not be able to control the speed. When any heavy vehicle comes opposite the driver will neither be able to control the speed nor use the brake. This ultimately leads to car accident.

The car accident statistics reveal that the drunken driver will always drive at a speed more than the expected level. Over speed as well as alcohol will cause accident. Personal injuries and vehicle damage are caused due to such driving. Sometimes the victim can not even get compensation from Insurance Company when he engaged in this type of driving.

Apart from this there are several other reasons for car accidents. There are nearly 6 million car accidents in US yearly. More than 2 lakh people are injured due to car accidents. Among them 2 million people suffer from permanent injuries. Every year car accident deaths are increasing. There are 40000 more deaths due to car accident this year as campared to the last year. Careless driving and driving at a speed above the limit are the normal causes of car accidents.

Mostly middle aged people are involved in car accidents. Aged people more than 75 years are the most severely affected groups in car accidents. More than half of the deaths due to car accidents happen because the deceased person failed to wear the seat belt.

Some percentage of car accident happens due to eating and listening to radio while driving. But large percentage of car accidents happens because the drivers use their mobile phones while driving. These statistics reveal one fact that most of the car accidents can be avoided if the driver had taken some sufficient care while driving.

Car accident statistics show that inattentiveness of the driver is the major cause of more car accidents. Though there are latest hands free mobile phones available in the market talking during driving will surely disturb their concentration in driving. So you could avoid accident by parking the car somewhere and talk or do not attend any call while driving. Sometimes pedestrians, cyclists may also get affected by car accidents.