Every year there are over 6 million car crashes with more than 40,000 fatalities linked to those accidents, and they’re on the rise. A lot of those deaths can be avoided by following the most basic safety procedures, like wearing your seat belt, not driving while intoxicated, and avoiding using your phone while you drive. That said, accidents still do happen due to other causes. Using data collected for the National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Survey for the U.S. Department of Transportation, Steve Casner, a safety expert and author of Careful: A User’s Guide to Our Injury-Prone Minds, determined these to be the types of car accidents that happen the most:
