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Q: How many deaths on the road each year?
I've done a little searching and came up empty on this. Does anyone have any stats on how many deaths there are on the roads in China?
People drive horribly here (uh oh stereotype), so I was interested to get a number.
Taken from a very recent Times article:
China had 78 million vehicles on its roads at the end of last year, roughly one-third as many as the United States. But China has nearly 70,000 police-confirmed traffic deaths a year, twice the figure for the United States. The actual discrepancy may be even greater. Chinese and Western traffic safety experts say that while the United States figures are extremely reliable and take into account virtually every death, only a small fraction of all traffic deaths in China show up in official figures because of widespread underreporting by the local police.
A comparison of government and industry data shows that the annual frequency of police-reported traffic deaths per million registered vehicles in China appears to be roughly six times as high as in the United States. And if the chronic underreporting by the police of China’s traffic deaths is factored in, the true annual rate of traffic deaths per million registered vehicles appears to be nearly 20 times as high.
don't know what the figure is ,,,but there is alot of death by electric scooters,, can't hear them andmost that drive them don't have a license.
That's why I like taking taxis. Low-speed and safe. If I had to drive on the highway here I'd freak out.
You have seen Chinese drivers in action I assume? How many Grand Prix drivers from China? F1? Any professional circuit drivers that ever placed top 50 even? Yah... well there you go.
