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I wonder if it’s because of intersection designs.

Traffic lights often result in rear-ends (they commonly increase after red light cam installation, though are still safer than the t-bones red light cameras reduce.) Roundabouts, which are more common in Europe, cause these much less, and since you have to slow down to enter one any sort of crashes in one tend to be at slower speeds.




In much of Europe roundabouts are quite uncommon. There's one thing that is ubiquitous in America but not in Europe though: 4-way stop intersections.


Let's say western europe then.




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