The Houston Chronicle‘s new study of Houston area traffic accidents ended with this assessment by the Texas Transportation Institute: As drivers in the state’s largest city, with 83 million miles traveled daily, our “margin of error is extremely small.”

You could be doing everything right — wearing your seat belt, signaling when you change lines, obeying the speed limit, setting aside your cell phone — and still have a fatal car accident. That’s because it only takes a moment’s inattention or a single mistake –by you or another driver — to cause a car wreck or traffic tragedy.

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“Crash!” It’s a sudden sound for a sudden event — and often a tragic one, especially when it comes in a car accident.

Innocent people die each day on America’s streets and highways. Many may have been safe, cautious drivers with a good record. But when other drivers on the road are rampaging — by speeding, drinking and driving recklessly — even safe drivers are in danger, including a woman in Detroit this week.

She was minding her own business, riding in a car, when another vehicle, which was involved in a street race, slammed into her Saturn Ion. The blameless woman died soon after at a hospital.

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