Shortly after I got back from India, I posted about the crazy traffic there. Well, my wifey pointed out the linked article to me, which contains the following item: There are more road deaths in India than any other country in the world. This is a statistic that wont surprise many visitors, for whom the roads of India are often terrifying. Officially about 115,000 people die on Indian roads each year - though a recent British Medical Journal study suggests that the true number of fatalities is closer to 200,000. Among the stark figures to emerge from the BMJ report are that 37% of all road deaths are pedestrians, with a further 28% for cyclists and motorcyclists, and that 55% of all fatalities occur within five minutes of the road incident. The study recommends more speed bumps, greater enforcement of greater use of safety helmets, and more fines and suspensions for drivers who break traffic rules. In fact, although India has by the far the highest number of total road deaths, the per capita figure for several other countries, led by Eritrea and the Cook Islands, are much higher.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 03:49:39 +0000
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