Generally, a road traffic accident is any event that involves a crash between a vehicle and another motor, object or fauna, and impacts on the passengers with physical injury or traumatic shock. The results are wide ranging and can be in terms of fatalities, personal deformity due to severe cuts on the body, and psychological trauma. Various factors influence the eventuality of casualty accidents.
The driver is primarily the cause of the accident since they are the ones directly responsible for the driving and maneuvering of the vehicle. Research shows that most of these consider themselves perfect when on the road and in the occurrence of an accident do not find themselves as the culprit. However, the possibility of a driver escaping unharmed from a fatal crash are very minimal compared to other persons on the vehicle. Once the law finds that the conduct of the driver like being intoxicated while on the road caused injuries on the victims, he may suffer a sentence of manslaughter or be forced to pay compensation to those suffering from accident injuries.
The speed of the motor is also a high determinant of accidents. Analysis in Britain in 2006 for example, showed that slow speeds incongruent to given road conditions account for a fifth of all casualty accidents, while beyond the limit speeds result to about a tenth of all accidents on the casualty level.
Though not as high an accessory factor as the human influence, the design of the road and vehicle shape amount to different degrees of accident injuries. In the United States, for example, roadway and vehicle barriers fueled by human conduct led to 34% of casualties in 1985. Abnormal and normal sized vehicles traversing the same road surface can often lead to uncontrollable collision with injuries mainly inflicted on the occupants of the smaller vehicles.
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