A run off the road crash is generally a single vehicle event that results in a large number of injuries and fatalities for the occupants. While this is American data, it is quite likely that our Canadian experience is very similar, meaning that 95% of our run off the road crashes involve some kind of driver error.
The report says that driver performance errors (27.7%) such as “overcompensation” and “poor directional control,” followed by driver decision errors (25.4%) such as “too fast for curve” and “too fast for conditions,” critical non-performance errors (22.5%) such as “sleeping” and “heart attack/other physical impairment,” and recognition errors (19.8%) such as “internal distractions” and “external distractions” are responsible.
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