Cars were invented as to fulfil the people needed for transportation. But then, some of the drivers are practicing different kinds of reckless driving method on the road although they know that the driving was defensively global demand to use car. There are many reason and causes by reckless driving. Other than that, this problem is the major causes that vehicle losing control. Car manufacture produce car that trusted to be safe when on the road and to minimize the rating and percentage of losing control because of the structure of the road and the condition of the weather. Some of the common causes that contribute to reckless driving are driving under influence of alcohol, speeding and racing, distraction, aggression, violation of law and also the driver’s attitude. Reckless driving is one cause death in area. For example of statistics on the car accident that occur in United States, show that more than 3 million people are injured on car accidents and 2 million form that value are permanent injuries. There are over 40,000 deaths due to car accidents every year. Meanwhile in Malaysia the main factor that causes accident is due to reckless of the driver that is drinking while driving. The road users is in the unconsciously condition where it will cause the driver to drive dangerously. When people in this situation, there are able to drive although it is dangerous to the driver and other road user. The authorities also have taken a big step to prevent this issue by enforce the law of road safety. Other than that, the emotion of the driver can be the causes of the reckless driver. Some road users might feel bad due to some factors and yet they are still driving. These emotion will make the driver does not think too much about the consequences of what they doing. The driver will speed up and violence all the road law. This will harm the other user. Psychologically explains that this is because the driver is
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