I quite often drive to Prague from Warsaw and every time I have at least one or two close encounters with death.

This is due to at least 4 factors:

Polish drivers are completely bonkers. Especially if you are in a decent car. They seem to make it their mission to drive as close up your ass as possible.

Polish Roads are in a bloody awful state of repair. They even have signs for "Koleiny" which are the deep tracks made in the road by trucks.

The death spots. They know very well where they are. They have signs for "czarny punkt" or black spot. If they know where people die why don't they fix the problem? duh!

The road layout. There roads were built for the old fiat 660cc pee wee cars. People are travelling 200km/h or more now, and there are no slip roads for exits, filter lanes to turn left, and they stick crossing points in the middle of a busy highway. Why not invest in 100 bridges between Warsaw and the Czech border and there can be a proper highway. Instead they'll build another road parallel to it no doubt!

I heard Poland has EU structural funds to build things like roads. Where do you think the money goes?