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Most causes of motor vehicle accidents are completely avoidable

It is estimated that 26% of all drivers have been involved in a car accident in the past 5 years. The sad thing about car accident statistics is that usually the biggest cause of car accidents is completely preventable. In order to prevent as many car accidents as possible, the biggest car accident causes must be taken into account. 

For example, a large number of car accidents every year were caused by driving drunk. As a result major pushes have been made to reduce the number of drunk drivers who are on the road. Organizations such as MADD work to reduce drunk driving, and there are also many public information ads that target it as well. These are major steps that are being taken to reduce one of the largest car accident causes.

However, regardless of whether or not the driver was drunk, car accident statistics show that many car accidents (81%) were at least partially caused by the driver talking with other passengers in the car. 

The statistics also show other significant causes of car accidents are listening to or changing the radio stations (involved in 66% of all accidents) to talking on cell phones (25%).

What we can see from these car accident causes is that while being drunk is a major cause of car accidents, the most common cause of car accidents is any type of distraction. Simple distractions can be causes of car accidents that create serious life-altering injuries such as those that result in head injury claims.

Therefore the most important thing to do while you're driving is to make sure that you limit any distractions. This way, you'll keep yourself, your loved ones and the other drivers on the road safe.

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