Road accidents are a daily occurrence , espeacialy in countries like Bangladesh and India . Its number is increasing everyday . Thousands of people die in road accident every year . Many have been crippled all their lives . Thousands of people's dreams were shattered due to an accident. Many family become destitute because the sole breadwinner of the family disabled today due to road accident.

Traffic collision

A traffic collision , also called a motor vehicle collision, car accident or car crash , occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle , pedestrian, animal, road debris and other stationary obstruction such as a tree , pole and building. Traffic collision often results in injury , disability , death , property damage as well as financial cost to both sociaty and the individual involved. Road transport is the most dangerous situation people deal with on a daily basis , but causatly figers from such incidents attract less media attention than other less frequent types of tragedy.

A number of factor's contribute to the risk of collision including vehicle design , speed of operation , road design , weather , road environment, driving skill , impairment due to alcohol , behavior , distracted driving, speeding and street racing.

Collision time

In 2013 , 54 million people in world wide sustained injuries from traffic collision.

This result in 1.4 million deaths in 2013 , up from 1.1 million death in 1990 . About 68000 of these occured with children less than five years old. Almost all high income countries have increasing death rate , while the majority of low income countries have increasing death rate due to traffic collisions . Middle income countries have the highest rate with 20 deaths per 10000 inhabitants , accounting for 80% of all road fatalities 52% of all vehicles . While the death rate in africa is the highest (24.1 per 10000 inhabitants) . The lowest rate is to be found in Europe ( 10.3 per 10000 inhabitants) .

Health effects

Physical:

A number of physical injuries can commonly result from the blunt force trauma caused by a collision ranging from brushing and contutions to catastrophic physical injury or death