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May 06, 2025
It’s easy to point fingers after a car accident, looking for reasons the wreck occurred. What were the weather conditions like at the time? How was the road designed? How old was the driver who caused the crash? Do some cars crash more than others?
It’s not that these aren’t important questions to ask. They are, and they can shed a lot of light on why car accidents are still one of the major sources of serious injuries and death in the United States. But they hide the fact that the root problem is far simpler than that. The issue is just that human drivers make mistakes.
A vast majority
In a study cited by the Stanford Law School, researchers found that human error leads to about 90 percent of car accidents. That’s an incredibly vast majority. People make mistakes, they crash their cars and they take lives. That’s all you need to know in most accidents in Connecticut.
Of course, human error is a large category. It could include things like:
- Texting and driving
- Running a stop sign
- Driving under the influence
- Merging without checking a blind spot
- Failing to leave a safe following distance
- Breaking the speed limit
- Taking a turn too fast
- Driving too fast for conditions
- Looking away from the road
These issues often connect to other commonly cited reasons for crashes. For instance, maybe the weather was bad. It was too foggy to see well when the crash happened. That plays a role, but you could still have a driver who goes too fast for those conditions and rear-ends a car he or she never sees in the fog. A human error still played a part in that crash.
