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Driving accidents are largely avoidable though.

If you avoid the wheel while tired or with alcohol in your system, you'll slash a big part of the risk. Avoid conversations in the car, on the phone or with your passenger(s), that's even more risk reduced. Keep your tires in good shape, your windshield clean, that's even better. Finally, if if you practice defensive driving, situational awareness, more still accidents can be avoided.

Nothing will of course mitigate all accidents, but there are definitely things that make you more or less accident prone in traffic.