>> No wonder America has some of the worst accident figures in the world.
Not nearly as bad as some though. China tops the poll with some 106,000 deaths in three quarters of a MILLION RTAs per year. Mind you, out of a population of 1.2 billion, it's a relative drop in the ocean. In Britain we lose approx 3500 on the roads out of a population of about 60 million. That's about 6 per 100,000 (the baseline measure). The USA is about 42,000 deaths (about 16 per 100,000). Portugal and Greece fair much worse as this table shows: <http://www.factbook.net/EGRF_Regional_analyses_HMCs.htm> China is about 7 or 8 per 100,000, but Thailand, Korea and Malaysia soar away with the worst record, the latter accounting for about 30 deaths per 100,000.... <http://www.factbook.net/EGRF_Regional_analyses_AsiaPacific.htm> HTH Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________
