Motor Vehicle Accidents

The World Health Organization (WHO) has completely a study of how many people die from road fatalities. Worldwide each year 1.27 million people die from road traffic crashes. About half of the people who die are the most vulnerable - pedestrians, bicyclists, and motorcyclists.

In Germany where many of the vehicles are much higher performance than in America, and some of the freeways have no speed limit at all, the death rate each year is 6 deaths per 100,000 people. This is a little higher than Great Britain at 5.4 deaths, and slightly below France at 7.5 where they do have a maximum speed on the freeways and have far fewer high performance cars than in Germany.

Anyone who has ever been to Egypt is absolutely horrified by the driving. The Egyptians are among the world’s most erratic drivers, and this is borne out by a death rate of 41.6 per 100,000 people.

The U.S.A. has 251 million cars spread over 306 million people, which is a higher rate than in any other country. And there are 13.9 fatalities per 100,000 people in America, which is about the same death rate as in Turkey and Sri Lanka. This rate of death by motor vehicle in America is more than double that in Germany.

But of course the American legislators in Washington D.C. are so arrogant that they can never admit that anything could possibly work better in some other country. Especially in socialistic Europe. So we don’t set up a blue ribbon panel of experts to go study why health care is so much more effective and costs less than half the price in England. And we don’t send a team of experts to Germany to learn what they are doing right and what America is doing wrong.

How pig headed.

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