The WHO released a very interesting and new Global survey on traffic injuries. The document is very long and exhaustive. Two data sets I found particularly shocking.
1. Between the ages of 5 and 29 yrs, road traffic injuries are the main cause of death. At older developmental stages, human beings prefer to die for HIV and hearth diseases.
2. Around 40% of the people slaughtered in car accidents are not (!) inside a car: they are pedestrians, cyclers, motor bikers and so on.
In a normal society, cars would be considered for sure more dangerous than pig, cow, bird flues or whatever. Of course, not in our society, where cars are still sold as powerful status symbols and drivers do not keep in mind they are in charge of a death bringer: their own car.
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