Originally Posted by
Mr. Underbridge
See, that's your problem - thinking you can prevent stupid. You can discourage stupid (say, by lane positioning), but you can't prevent it.
You can't prevent stupid but often you can see stupid coming. And it's usually two stupid/inattentive people that creates an accident so it's good too ask yourself if you could have done something better after a close call. Sometimes you could have, sometimes there is anything to prevent it but it doesn't hurt to reflect on it.