Posted on 05/25/2016 2:23:31 PM PDT by Lorianne
More than 700 people are killed in road accidents across China every day, according to the World Health Organisation.
The WHO estimates that traffic accident claim about 260,000 deaths on the mainland each year, of which with 60 per cent are vulnerable road users such as pedestrians, cyclists, and motorcyclists.
China’s drive for better road safety is starting to pay dividends but it still has a way to go(
The increasing use of electric bikes in urban areas in China for courier delivering has become a new concern for road safety with the development of e-business, experts admit.
He Yong, deputy president of the research institute of highways at the Ministry of Transportation, said the central government was considering whether to categorise e-bikes as bicycles or vehicles, where different rules will apply.
“But banning e-bikes is not be the answer,” He said. Rather, reining in bad drivers should be the main priority.
The Geneva-based UN body said traffic accidents were among the top 10 causes of death in the world and the leading cause of death for people aged from 15 to 29.
Crackdown on unlicensed delivery vehicles in Chinese boom city creates major logistics headache
Worldwide, some 1.25 million people die and another 20 million to 50 million are injured every year on the road.
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Here’s some data as of a few years ago.
US has over 800 cars per 1000 people. China has less then 100.
Makes their death rate even worse.
The Russians are pretty bad too. From what I’ve seen on youtube, the favorite manuever for Russian drivers is making a left turn from the far right lane, crossing all 4 lanes and inevitably getting T boned.
CC
As Hillary would say, “Just some bumps in the road (i.e. population)”. “What difference does it make”?
Crunch all you want, we’ll make more.
On average in 2012, 92 people were killed on the roadways of the U.S. each day,
in 30,800 fatal crashes during the year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year
How can we up that number?
>>Here we all grew up with cars
Worth repeating.
And further, many of us are old enough that when young, we were standing in the back seat, legs astride the driveshaft hump, arms over the middle of the front bench seat, with a great view of the proceedings while mom or dad motored along. This made the transition to driver much easier.
Would be cheaper here too. Killing by car here always gets less time than with a hand weapon.
ROR
That took me a minute!
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