【正确答案】Reasons for Traffic Accidents In recent years, traffic accidents happen quite often. According to the pie chart above, it is clear that the main reason for traffic accidents is violation of the traffic rules, which covers 65%, followed by drunken-driving and other reasons, covering 25% and 10% respectively. To account for this phenomenon, various reasons have come up as listed below. To begin with, there are more and more cars on the street. For this reason, some drivers are impatient to wait and make illegal passing, regardless of the traffic rules. Moreover, some people drive after drinking alcohol and some even drive when they are drunken. Of course, traffic accidents may happen under other situations, such as when there is mechanical failure on the cars, when the pedestrians cross the roads at will, when the roads are bad, and so on. We must be aware of the causes of traffic accidents and act to prevent them. The drivers and pedestrians should obey the traffic rules consciously and the departments concerned need to make strict regulations to restrain the violators. Besides, we should deal with the problems like mechanical failure and road problems in time.