Accidents In The United States

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In the United States there are approximately 20,000 car accidents each and every day. However, most of the wreaks are minor and people don’t hear about them or they don’t know about them because they didn’t occur near them. I have seen a few accidents in my life, but I will always remember this one car crash even though it was small. I was on my way to my parents’ house to drop of my little sisters from school, I noticed that one of the lanes were really backed up. I knew that it wasn’t backed up when I had came down the road earlier, so something must have happened. When we got up to where the cars where it was a horrific sight. One car was really damaged, its tire was on the other side of the road and the passenger door was compressed all

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