Cripes! I'll never complain about traffic on the interstate again.

Originally posted by saint4God
Cripes! I'll never complain about traffic on the interstate again.

I used to say "Oh God, I SWEAR I'll never drink again"......... lol.

Me no good at math, I wonder what number is, in ratio to the US/UK death per population per same scenario?

Misfit

It's as if 25,000 people died in US or 5,000 in UK in the same time.
I believe about 43,000 people died on US roads in 2003 which is 143 people per million just for road incidents and in China its 83 per million.

Originally posted by Megaquad
I believe about 43,000 people died on US roads in 2003 which is 143 people per million just for road incidents and in China its 83 per million.

Even if the numbers are correct as a percentage, the numbers are still staggering. It may get alot worse as more people in that country start driving. ATSNN has an article up today about 56 miners killed. The CHI OSHA must be a busy place indeed.

For a true assessment of the road safety (or lack thereof) figures, the population is not a major consideration; the relevant factor is the number of vehicles there are in the country. China has very few cars per person compared with other, developed countries.
e.g. If only 500 people died in vehicle accidents a year in a country with a population of 100 million, you'd think that was pretty good. However if you then discovered that the country only had 100 vehicles, you'd have to say that the safety record for that country's roads was abysmal, considering that each vehicle "killed" 5 people.

Registered vehicles:
Australia=~13,500,000
China =~ 24,000,000

Road deaths annually:
Australia=~1700
China=~100,000

Ratio of road deaths to registered vehicles:
(a) Australia=~0.000126 9
(b)China=~0.00417

Therefore, within a single year, a vehicle in China is 30 times more likely to be involved in a 'human fatalilty' accident than a vehicle in Australia. Chinas large population as an explanation for the large number of road fatalities would only be justifiable if China had a proportionately huge number of vehicles.

OMG! I had no idea China was this unsafe. Just another side effect of overpopulation. Then again I suppose children working in firework factories can't produce the best safety records in the world.