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Traffic Accidents around the world

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Adding: I see that Maldives is lowest. Are there any cars on Maldives? :p
 
My friend's Au Pair was from Norway. She could drive! -- part of their driver's ed was skidpad training. I can't remember the hours, maybe 8 hours? Definitely teaches drivers what to do when their car decides to obey the laws of physics more than the traffic laws.
 
One reason the UK rates are so low is the dreaded M.O.T. which flunks a lot of cars for mechanical reasons. Applying those standards here in the States would probably result in 20% of cars being taken off the roads with bad tires, shocks, etc. I don't know about the rest of Europe. Maybe some of the overseas contingent can enlighten us.
 
I'm very surprised to see Greece as low as it is. Sure didn't seem like they were good drivers when I was there!
 
Jamaica wasn't too high either... and they're terrible.
 
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Jamaica wasn't too high either... and they're terrible.
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The scariest ride I ever took was in a Taxi in Downtown Athens. I'm pretty sure I took a piece of the back seat upholstery with me when I got out of the cab.
 
It would be interesting to see how that relates to typical insurance rates (in the countries where insurance is required).
 
Basil said:
The scariest ride I ever took was in a Taxi in Downtown Athens. I'm pretty sure I took a piece of the back seat upholstery with me when I got out of the cab.
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WOW! That was one serious pucker factor.
 
Basil said:
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My scariest was in Rome with a guy in a Mercedes limo going from our hotel to the airport. We sort of asked for it because the Pope (JPII) and announcements had gone out that there would be a "total road closure" during the day of his funeral (that day)... with lots of dignitaries flying in. I told my wife to just close her eyes as we did about 110mph swerving, a bit, in and out of cars on the freeway. He was wearing sunglasses and must have thought he got to play race-driver with our request (to get to the airport because the freeway was closed).
 
Would be interesting to know along with it the number of cars and miles driven per 100,000. For example North Korea is ranked as one of the lowest but I would think that would be a function of few cars for the population more than anything else. So their ranking just above the United States with it's millions of autos and miles driven isn't a valid comparison. North Korea may have a high number of accidents based on those how actually have access to an auto. Same with some of the others listed. Without all the information, the rankings are meaningless.
 
mikephillips said:
Would be interesting to know along with it the number of cars and miles driven per 100,000. For example North Korea is ranked as one of the lowest but I would think that would be a function of few cars for the population more than anything else. So their ranking just above the United States with it's millions of autos and miles driven isn't a valid comparison. North Korea may have a high number of accidents based on those how actually have access to an auto. Same with some of the others listed. Without all the information, the rankings are meaningless.
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Yes, that strikes me as odd too. England has a LOT of cars and is ranked low, so maybe a per-capita thing should be used.
 
Been to Thailand (ranked at 14) and had a taxi ride where the driver was going fast enough to catch air going over the "klongs" (waterway bridges). He drove with his body wedged against the door and when asked why, he explained: "If anything happen, I let go of wheel and let Buddha drive!"

That was "enlightening" indeed...
 
Steve said:
Driver training in Europe is a whole lot better than it is in the United States, and rules of the road are stricter.
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That's not hard to believe! I remember driving on the Autobahn and people actually used turn signals to change lanes! What a novel concept! I also recall that people would stay to the right to allow passage of those Porsches that wanted to pass at 250KMPH! :driving:
 
But as you may recall, accidents do happen. I think this Mercedes had some sort of special pop-up shield behind the seats (that saved this fellow).

 
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