It isn’t difficult to reduce them but if the people respected the traffic laws and their own life. Causes of traffic accidents are speeding, lack of respect for traffic laws and drunk driving. Speeding: If they drove at the speeds the government permits, then there would be less traffic accidents than before. Lack of respect for traffic laws: majority of drivers are good at respecting the traffic laws because they had to study them and know how to drive a vehicle on busy and quiet roads. They also had known the traffic signs.