Sunday, September 19, 2010

South Korea is 5th Worldwide in Road Fatalities

I suspected they were bad, but I am surprised that it is this bad:
Korean roads are the fifth deadly in the world, according to a survey by the International Transport Forum. 
Quoting a survey by the Paris-based forum, the U.K. Daily Mail on Wednesday said Korea ranked fifth among 33 major countries with 12 road deaths per 100,000 people. It tails Malaysia (23.8 deaths), Argentina (18.4), Greece (13.8), and Cambodia (12.6). 
The U.S. ranked seventh with 11.1 deaths and Japan tied with Switzerland at 27th with 4.5. The U.K. was the safest with a mere 3.8. 
Korea topped the list in terms of annual road fatalities per billion km driven with 20.1 deaths, followed by the Czech Republic (19.4) and Malaysia (17.7).
Something to remember with these numbers is that it is per 100,000 people, and not per 100,000 cars or drivers.  I am sure that there are more road fatalities in countries like China and India per 100,000 cars or drivers.  But larger percentages of their populations (millions of people who never leave their villages) do not have cars and are not driving at all.

Whereas, Korea has a robust automotive industry and a world class network of highways and roads.  Once a family hits middle class, they buy a car and learn how to drive it for the first time when they are in their thirties or forties.  I have no statistics to back this up, but I bet a lot of elderly people in Korea are learning to drive as their children finally earn them enough income to afford a car to drive, and those people might be a contributing growing percentage of road fatalities.

You could also blame the staggering amount of alcohol consumption in Korea or the complete lack of traffic law enforcement.  Take your pick!

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