
Despite receiving a large amount of attention in the media, auto accidents caused by driver inattention continue to rise every year. Not paying attention to road and traffic conditions is the number one cause of all car accidents in the United States. By knowing how to avoid the situations and behaviors that routinely cause car crashes, you can lower the odds that you and those you love will be involved in an accident that can result in injury and even death. In this article, we’re going to look at some of the more common causes of car accidents and what you can do to prevent them. All other causes, such as weather or vehicle failure, accounted for less than 6% of car accidents. A survey of on-scene accident information conducted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed that 94% of all car accidents nationwide could be attributed to some form of driver error. Interestingly, the vast majority of these accidents were due to driver error. In California alone, there where over 500,000 vehicle accidents in 2013 involving fatalities, injuries and property damage or some combination thereof.

The National Safety Council estimates show that there are over 10 million car accidents in the United States every year.

Now, it's a comparatively meager 5 stellar masses.Driving can be dangerous. Naked Coreīefore the disaster, the scientists believe Gamma Columbae could have been up to 12 times the mass of our Sun. But in the middle of that relatively common process, something appears to have horrifically gone wrong and ejected the envelope - and possibly even led to the two stars merging.


What caused the stripping of this atmospheric envelope is not definitively known, but the scientists posit that Gamma Columbae running out of hydrogen could've caused its envelope to expand and swallow up a nearby star, likely its binary partner. If true, that means Gamma Columbae is missing the envelope, or vast shroud of gas, that hides a star's nuclear fusion powered core. Scientists studying a group of stars made an astonishing but "serendipitous" discovery when they realized that Gamma Columbae, a fairly average celestial body, might actually be the "stripped pulsating core of a massive star," according to a study published this week in Nature Astronomy.
