And 208 deaths per annum for each 100,000 vehicles on the road compared to 11 per 100,000 for us.
skin1235,
Dec 25, 9:57pm
obviously you have some info but will ask how many vehicles per population and how does that compare with NZ ( 4m people/ 2.1m vehicles) what is the general state of their national roading, can you break it down more!
your link mentions speed as a factor in a lot of the crashes, SA has very long straight roads, very long boring roads, with not a lot of cops outside the city limitsspeed is always going to be a factor ,what is the ethnicity of the bulk of the vehicle owners and drivers, and the crashing drivers
carstauranga001,
Dec 25, 10:26pm
I sold a car the other day to a South African just arrived here. He mentioned the comparison between road tolls. Population is 60 mil against 4.5 mill. He said a long weekend like Easter they could have around 450 deaths. Yes 450! Speed limit 70 in town and 120 open road but he said much better roads so speed not such an issue as one might think. Also stated that many deaths are pedestrians hit. Most are lower class people who have never driven and have no idea what being hit at 120km/hr will do to you. Apparantly they just wander along the road. Anyway, his comments made me google this morning and the results are interesting.
skin1235,
Dec 25, 10:30pm
way I heard it, losing concentration ( going to sleep or tunnel vision) was a common cause of accidents is there still an element of the 'roo shoot' ( australian slang for shooting abo's), there certainly used to be not so many years back , cars and trucks make excellent weapons
tgray,
Dec 25, 10:37pm
India has worlds worst road toll, with 130,000 deaths per year. (over 350 p/day).
solarboy,
Dec 26, 12:58am
You can only get so many on the roof of a bus or train before they start falling off and when it hits something there's the surety of mass carnage.
kurly,
Dec 26, 1:21am
Natural selection
intrade,
Dec 26, 1:30am
worlds worst driving is in india most common fault is the steering wheel has come off or head on colission they drive on both side of the roads at all time.
thats one death to every37926.675 People, were as we have one death per 21634.615 people. and that country is not exactly "secure" shows how poor driver education causes the problem.
a18a,
Dec 26, 2:20am
seems the only thing you would need for a wof over there is a working horn
carstauranga001,
Dec 26, 2:27am
How have you worked your figures out, sounds out to me. Did you see their figure is based on about 5 weeks of hols!
Below is per annum per head of population. (As I stated in No 2) 208 deaths per annum for each 100,000 vehicles on the road compared to 11 per 100,000 for us.
worlds worst driving is in india most common fault is the steering wheel has come off or head on colission they drive on both side of the roads at all time.
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