They're dominated by normal drivers who had a momentary lapse in judgment or attention. This is why running a police state that goes hard on DUI and vehicle inspections doesn't make the roads as much safer as its proponents would leave you to believe.
Nice Freudian slip there.
Rich western europe has less car accidents because they, broadly speaking, don't let poor people drive and work harder to cultivate a law abiding populace.
American's have to drive and they have to drive further.
If a collision occurs because of bad road/intersection design then it wasn't all that accidental after all - it was a statistical inevitability.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision#Criticism_of...