How can we avoid accidents

It is a sad fact of the modern life that in our big cities thousands of men, women and children die every year in road accidents. Most of the road-side accidents occur either because of the ignorance of traffic rules

or inability to read and follow the road signs out of carelessness of the road users. 

Accidents are mostly caused by people. The traffic accidents are the fault of those people who do not care for their fellow human beings. Accidents can be avoided if we follow the following rules. 

1. We should always lookout what is going around us. 
2. We should not walk on the road if there is a footpath. 
3. We should take care when crossing the road. We should look both ways and keep looking all the way across. 
4. We should use zebra crossing while crossing the road. 
5. We should drive in the left and lane except when overtaking. 

We can avoid accident if we drive more slowly, look around us and take notice of the effects of our actions on the others if we, as a whole, have more traffic sense, all of us will be much safer on the road.