Kix

Is here

In a nutshell:-

UK, 3.7 deaths/100,000
UAE 12.7
Qatar 14
Saudi 24.8
Oman 30.4

I wonder if it could be done as a number in relation to 100,000 licenses issued, how much it would change.

britexpat76

Tunisia is 18.8, The driving there is as bad if not worse than anything I have seen here. They don't even have stop signs so every junction is a lottery - utter madness!

China and the Dominican republic are the places I have feared for my life on the roads though, My Taxi driver in China had to stop twice to have a piss obviously having been drinking all day - My alternative was walking in the snow along the same unlit road not knowing where I was going. Awful

Bahtatboy

That's an excellent point. 1/10 for UAE?

OriginalSunshine

Yay Oman.....

and you wonder why I drive the biggest Volvo possible?!

Norm_uk

So only four times more likely to die on UAE roads than the UK...and the UAE has something like a tenth of the population probably, bigger and newer roads and more new cars. So the prime problem is human error.

Some cultures simply don't value life as much...

N.

Norm_uk

Didn't think of that...how many drivers are actually on the roads not total population.

Suddenly it's a lot scarier.

N.

Boomhauer

Ditch the Volvo and get a Dodge Ram dually diesel crew-cab pickup

Yoohoo

Kix's excellent point is ably illustrated by the figures for Oman. Most people there drive, although I'll admit there are still many, many labourers and maids there who don't.

I've heard too that Oman don't count fatalities as a road statistic unless one dies at the scene of the accident.

The Dean

From that site:

"The global road death toll has already reached 1.24 million per year and is on course to triple to 3.6 million per year by 2030."

And they know this.............. how? Ridiculous assertion.

Bahtatboy

I wonder if that factors in UAE's reduction to zero by 2020.

OriginalSunshine

Not allowed to buy those - only locals can buy them

OriginalSunshine

That's true. Die en-route, or at the hospital, and you don't count. You also don't count if you are under 18yrs old. So, those window piercing missiles known as "babes in arms" also don't count.