| Experts state that the major causes of car accidents | | | | when drivers slow down to look at another accident |
| are driver distractions. Dangerous distractions that can | | | | on the road or anything that looks unusual on the |
| lead to an accident include cell phones and other | | | | highway. When a driver slows a car down too quickly, |
| gadgets that drivers use as they drive. Cell phones, | | | | the driver in the car behind often times doesn't have |
| laptops, electric razors, etc. causes drivers to take their | | | | enough time to slow down or stop and runs into the |
| eyes off the road for seconds at a time with the | | | | back of the vehicle in the lead. Rear end collisions can |
| potential to cause a serious, if not deadly, accident. In | | | | lead to serious injuries. The same applies for tailgating |
| response to this, some states in the US have banned | | | | in that a driver who is following a car too closely may |
| the use of hand-held cell phones while people are | | | | not have enough distance to stop suddenly, and the |
| driving. The alternative is to use a hands free ear bud | | | | potential for a serious accident is eminent.A driver's |
| that is lightweight and comfortable, and allows a driver | | | | behavior causes many accidents; still others are |
| to carry on a conversation without diversions.Another | | | | caused by mechanical failure or road conditions. There |
| dangerous distraction is when a driver who has been | | | | are technical solutions that are available to help with |
| drinking and then attempts to drive. The effects of | | | | these problems and have contributed to a decline in |
| alcohol can and does raise havoc behind the while. | | | | the death rates caused by automobile accidents. They |
| Anyone with a blood alcohol level of .01 is considered | | | | include proximity monitors that let a driver know how |
| unfit to drive. The effects of driving while intoxicated | | | | close they are to the vehicle ahead; sobriety detectors, |
| include drowsiness, loss of focus and the inability to | | | | that measure the amount of alcohol that a driver has |
| judge distances and reaction times.Rubbernecking and | | | | consumed and drifting monitors that alert a driver |
| tailgating are other potentially dangerous habits that | | | | when his or her car drifts too far to one side of the |
| many practice while driving. Rubbernecking occurs | | | | road or the other. |