The "killing" factors on the road

Accident

In a recent issue of "Drive" published by the Automobile Association of Malaysia, it cited eight reasons for road traffic accidents:

1. Insufficient concentration: A driver may be distracted by a passenger or a mobile phone call. You need 100% concentration on the situation ahead of you to be in full control.
2. Sleep: One of the major causes of accidents is due to sleepy drivers.
3. Errors of judgment: Some of the errors are moving too fast into a bend, unsafe overtaking, too fast in fog, a gap not large enough for a vehicle, the gap in traffic closed before arrival, failure to leave a ' time to react' space and exceeding a safe speed.
4. Errors of observation: Drivers in this case usually look but do not see.
5. Dangerous attitude: Driving with no regard to other road users or vehicles such as beating the red light, older drivers with poor eyesight, younger drivers fail to do essential tyre and brake maintenance, and road hog forcing other vehicles to brake or swerve.
6. Mechanical failure: Owners fail to do regular maintenance.
7. Inexperienced drivers: One of them is that he normally does not drive but do so when the road is congested, in a vehicle he doesn't get used to.
8. An unexpected loss of control.
9. Tailgating

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