On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 06:38:33PM +0530, Subash scripsit: > looked around a little for stats on the Net and this was all i could > find for now: stats from International Road Traffic and Accident > Database (OECD), the figures available are for 2004: > http://www.driveandstayalive.com/info%20section/statistics/stats-multicountry-percapita-2004.htm > > the per capita fatality rate for some countries: > > india: 8.33 > china: 8.26 > uk: 5.34 > japan: 5.76 > canada: 8.56 > france: 8.67 > usa: 14.53 > russia: 24.01 > australia: 7.94 > > that, i guess, only gives a rough idea and things would have changed in > five years...
Doubt things have changed all that much. I don't think the per-capita death rate from traffic accidents is really the interesting number. The interesting number is fatalities per km, or, hopefully, something like fatalities per 100,000 km, because that can be turned into "how long do I have to drive in this place before I have a 50% chance of dying?" Kinda like how one would want to know if a fellow photographer's 3 gorgeous displayed prints were taking from a group of 26 shots or 3,000 shots, only hopefully that's a situation involving rather less death. -- Graydon, who tries to avoid occasions to drive -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
