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11 percent of global road accident deaths is far less than the 17.5% of world population it represents, so it is safer than average.

Most of this is probably due to gridlock, it’s hard for Indian traffic to reach speeds sufficiently fast to cause terminal injury.



While gridlocks do bring down average driving speeds in big cities, reckless driving when not in gridlocks is far too common. My own house is in a residential area, and yet, I hear drivers constantly honking while zipping by. Moreover, it does not take much speed to run over somebody.


The article starts with

> With only 1 per cent of the world's vehicles, India accounts for 11 per cent of the global death in road accidents

so it's 11 times higher than expected.


The road accidents figure likely includes pedestrians, and in the least it includes people in tuk tuk/rickshaws, scooters, mopeds, motorcycles, etc. these aren’t roads with a high frequency of cars hitting cars at high speeds.




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