It then goes on to say > What is your state or city doing to address this safety issue and prevent severe injuries and fatalities? So the negligent party is i

It then goes on to say > What is your state or city doing to address this safety issue and prevent severe injuries and fatalities? So the negligent party is implied not to be the individual driver who is not giving due care and attention, but the road designer or maintainer for not making the road safer. I agree that crashes often occur due to the direct negligence of a road user, but when it comes to the state, there are a lot of tradeoffs and calculations to make. They are not responsible for each individual accident, but for the overall outcome of road use in general. It's erroneous to say the state is negligent for (e.g) funding emergency services to improve outcomes after a range of incidents both on and off the road, vs. Road safety measures. If £X of extra ambulance and fire funding prevents Y road-related deaths and Z other deaths, whilst that same sum on road safety measures only prevents those Y road deaths, then cure may be better than prevention.