BTS Dead in Car Crash

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BTS was heading to a party to perform, they missed the exit on the highway and took a U-Turn and in their Blind Spot was a truck going about 75MPH. While many would like to think that car accidents are inevitable and can’t be helped, the truth is that with rare exceptions–such as poor weather, car accidents are the result of negligence, and are almost always preventable. Every year, there are tens of thousands of lives lost on U.S. roads, many of which could have been saved but for careless drivers.

If you’ve been in a car accident in North Carolina, our car accident attorneys can help. Consider some of these most common causes of car accidents and reach out to our law firm directly if you have questions about your rights after a crash. Drunk driving is the number one reason why fatal car accidents happen. According to data provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), drunk driving-related deaths took more than 10,400 lives in a single year alone in the U.S. The second-most dangerous driving behavior is that of speeding, which took only a few hundred fewer lives than did drunk driving in the same year for which data is cited. Speeding is entirely preventable, and occurs as a result of aggressive driving, impatience, or pure negligence. Distracted driving is becoming more and more common as more people behind the wheel use smartphones. While cellphones are the biggest cause of distracted driving, they’re by no means the only one. GPS devices, eating while driving, and even chatting with passengers can all be distracting. More people than you might expect fall asleep at the wheel, dozing off to the point where they perform a dangerous maneuver. Drowsy driving is extremely dangerous for obvious reasons. While drowsy driving can affect anyone, truck drivers and those who work irregular hours are most at risk. Certain prescription and over-the-counter medications can also cause drowsy driving. Finally, aggressive driving can refer to a wide range of behaviors that are dangerous, such as following too closely, driving too fast for conditions, tailgating, cutting off another driver, failing to signal, running a red light, failing to yield, and more. Car crashes are mysteries. Even though roughly 6 million of them happen each year in the United States alone, we seldom learn much. When we do drive by a crash, we often slow down to have a look. But there’s never much to see. Two crumpled cars. Maybe one upside down. An ambulance closing its doors. I usually feel bad—for those who may have gotten hurt (or worse), of course, but also because my rubbernecking contributes to the logjam of cars behind me.

I want to know what happened because there’s an obvious payoff. I want to make sure that the same thing doesn’t happen to me. Was it some bonehead move that I would never make? Or did someone commit a minor transgression and then pay a major price? Give me an instant replay like I get when I’m watching football. A slow-motion video with expert commentators who draw diagrams and who reveal in explicit detail how it all went down. Without the details of how crashes happen, we tend to dismiss them as the work of “idiots”—drivers who occupy the lower echelons of driving skill and common sense. But while humankind’s measured intelligence is increasing, so is the number of deadly car crashes. After a lifetime of improvement, we saw an 8 percent jump in crash fatalities during 2015, the largest in 50 years. That number rose again in 2016, when more than 40,000 people died in collisions.

Fortunately, science is coming to the rescue. We no longer have to rely solely on dents, skid marks, and the lawyer-vetted remarks of drivers to figure out what happened and to tell us how to avoid the next crash. In a landmark study published in 2008, researchers at the University of Michigan combed the scene of 6,950 crashes to give us a more detailed analysis of what happened during each crash. Naturalistic driving studies are now equipping cars with accelerometers, sonar, sensors that track driver inputs, and lots of video cameras. Drivers sign up to participate in these studies, and they sometimes crash, leaving researchers with valuable data. We’re also benefiting from the rise of road cams—dashboard-mounted video cameras owned by everyday drivers, aka cammers, who cruise around, record crashes, and then post them on websites like Reddit.


I’ve rolled up the fruits of these efforts to provide a closer look at what the evidence tells us are six of the most common crash scenarios. None of these types of crashes are rare occurrences or the work of the especially incompetent. They happen as a result of simple misunderstandings of what can happen when cars, roads, and minds of even the most intelligent and responsible drivers all come together.

The Rolling Right Turn on Red

You approach a red light, and you’re about to turn right. You slow down but don’t come to a full stop. As you continue to roll, you look to your left to see if there are any cars coming at you from that direction. You turn your head back to the right and suddenly, out of nowhere, there’s a pedestrian or a bicyclist.

The rolling right turn on red overwhelms our attentional capabilities. While we’re fearing for our life in one direction, we’re driving in another. What could possibly go wrong? Why do we attempt this impossible feat? Aside from our unshakable confidence in our multitasking superpowers, many drivers don’t even know that the law requires us to come to a full stop before turning.

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Firefighters help clean up the scene of a fatal accident that killed seven people when the SUV they were riding in crashed off an I-25 overpass and burst into flames early Thanksgiving morning on Nov. 28, 2008, near Johnstown, Colorado.
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Car crashes are mysteries. Even though roughly 6 million of them happen each year in the United States alone, we seldom learn much. When we do drive by a crash, we often slow down to have a look. But there’s never much to see. Two crumpled cars. Maybe one upside down. An ambulance closing its doors. I usually feel bad—for those who may have gotten hurt (or worse), of course, but also because my rubbernecking contributes to the logjam of cars behind me.

I want to know what happened because there’s an obvious payoff. I want to make sure that the same thing doesn’t happen to me. Was it some bonehead move that I would never make? Or did someone commit a minor transgression and then pay a major price? Give me an instant replay like I get when I’m watching football. A slow-motion video with expert commentators who draw diagrams and who reveal in explicit detail how it all went down.


Without the details of how crashes happen, we tend to dismiss them as the work of “idiots”—drivers who occupy the lower echelons of driving skill and common sense. But while humankind’s measured intelligence is increasing, so is the number of deadly car crashes. After a lifetime of improvement, we saw an 8 percent jump in crash fatalities during 2015, the largest in 50 years. That number rose again in 2016, when more than 40,000 people died in collisions.

Fortunately, science is coming to the rescue. We no longer have to rely solely on dents, skid marks, and the lawyer-vetted remarks of drivers to figure out what happened and to tell us how to avoid the next crash. In a landmark study published in 2008, researchers at the University of Michigan combed the scene of 6,950 crashes to give us a more detailed analysis of what happened during each crash. Naturalistic driving studies are now equipping cars with accelerometers, sonar, sensors that track driver inputs, and lots of video cameras. Drivers sign up to participate in these studies, and they sometimes crash, leaving researchers with valuable data. We’re also benefiting from the rise of road cams—dashboard-mounted video cameras owned by everyday drivers, aka cammers, who cruise around, record crashes, and then post them on websites like Reddit.


I’ve rolled up the fruits of these efforts to provide a closer look at what the evidence tells us are six of the most common crash scenarios. None of these types of crashes are rare occurrences or the work of the especially incompetent. They happen as a result of simple misunderstandings of what can happen when cars, roads, and minds of even the most intelligent and responsible drivers all come together.

The Rolling Right Turn on Red

You approach a red light, and you’re about to turn right. You slow down but don’t come to a full stop. As you continue to roll, you look to your left to see if there are any cars coming at you from that direction. You turn your head back to the right and suddenly, out of nowhere, there’s a pedestrian or a bicyclist.

The rolling right turn on red overwhelms our attentional capabilities. While we’re fearing for our life in one direction, we’re driving in another. What could possibly go wrong? Why do we attempt this impossible feat? Aside from our unshakable confidence in our multitasking superpowers, many drivers don’t even know that the law requires us to come to a full stop before turning.


The rolling right on red now accounts for 6 percent of all pedestrian fatalities, and the number is on the rise. Worse still, 21 percent of the deaths happen to kids. Even when a car is moving slowly, children have a four times greater chance of dying than grown-ups.

Solution: Slow your roll when making this very simple transition. It’ll cost you about three seconds, and you just might save a life.

Falling Asleep

Since we have yet to invent the handheld snooze-a-lyzer device for the police to carry, we’ve historically had to guess how often drivers fall asleep at the wheel. But driving studies and cammers are revealing that our previous guesses were far too low. We now estimate that about 7 percent of all car crashes, and 21 percent of fatal crashes, happen to drowsy drivers. Recent surveys find that 37 percent of all drivers have fallen asleep while driving at least once in their lives, 11 percent during the past year, and 4 percent during the past month. And our increasingly busy schedules are making the problem worse.

How does it happen to us? “People are horrible judges of their own sleepiness,” Mark Rosekind, who was administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration under President Obama, reminded me. According to Rosekind, who is now the safety chief at Zoox, an autonomous-car startup, drivers are even less aware of the danger of microsleep—brief intervals during which our brains just shut down and go offline for few seconds. Rosekind said that we don’t know when we’re microsleeping, are about to, or even when we just did. “Our brains can put us to sleep anytime.”

It won’t happen to us, right? Here’s a cammer who caught himself falling asleep and crashing in front of a sign that reads “Cemetery, 1KM.” One YouTube commenter said: “He almost made it.”

Solution: Did you sleep less than seven hours last night? Is it late? Are you alone in the car? No caffeine on hand? These are the elements of disaster. Delete some of them from your situation or get out of the car.

Loss of Control

It’s hard to imagine losing control of your vehicle, but it accounts for 11 percent of all crashes. It’s comforting to think that these unfortunate drivers occupy the bottom 11 percent of the driving skill scale, but science has some humbling news for us. It turns out that most of us think about driving skill far too simply. A classic study shows 50 percent of all drivers rank themselves in the top 20 percent of driver safety and skill. Where are the errors in our thinking? Racer and test driver Andy Pilgrim told me that we have surprisingly little technical mastery of our own vehicles. Most drivers are “not even close to the capability of their car, as far as going fast,” said Pilgrim, who can show you things in your minivan that would blow your mind.

This is a satirical website. Don't take it Seriously. It's a joke.