Thing - you need to learn from them. Trust me they are everywhere, and you are usually correct in the assertion - that you would not do it that way. Plenty of us have seen the most stupendous decisions taken by people who should have known better, and they get away with it until the day they pile into a hill
Kid I know died on Friday. Driving his motorbike, hit a pot hole, fell off, under the wheels of a car. Lost the helmet on the way off.
A crazy accident - but, was he going too fast, did not spy the pot hole, and sods law that a car just happened to be passing?????
A terrible accident, however, I feel at lot of GA pilots make their own safety. Obviously an accident will occur where the pilot did everything, and fate happened to look the other way
That, unfortunately, is life.