Top 10 Countries With The Most Car Accidents In The World

 

According to the World Health Organization - who-, the crash have become an epidemic that is difficult to control, since the aftermath of these events represent a public health problem.

The who conducted a study called Ireport on the global road safety 2013 situation, this ensures that every year 1.2 million people die in the world because of a traffic accident, and between 20 and 50 million people suffer "non-fatal injuries", better known as wounds.

Most of these accidents occur in low- and middle-income countries, which altogether have 48% of vehicles in the world, and we present them to you in this Top 10:

Top 10 countries with the most car accidents

1 India

Being the seventh largest country and the second most populous in the world, has very poor roads since they are poorly paved or even are, poorly lit and do not have signs. Better known as "rickshaw" taxis are on the one hand tourism elements, on the other hand are a danger for which used, since drivers lack training and are completely unaware of road rules. Daily circulating in India around 30 million vehicles, which triggered one of the most chaotic transits of the planet made worse by the low level of preparation of the conductors.


2 China

It is the most populous country in the world by surface corresponds to the fourth position and just enough to see the numerous videos of accidents in this country to realize about the magnitude of shocks and the carelessness of some drivers. In June last year there were more than 233 million motor vehicles, including 114 million automobiles and 103 million motorcycles by plans that this year the Chinese Government to extend the measures to restrict the number of new plates for private cars, thereby reducing traffic and pollution. With more than 1,339,724,852 (on the rise) inhabitants, it is impossible that the road chaos does not reign in this Asian country.



3 United States

EE.UU. not only it occupies the third place in this Top 10 but is the third largest country by total area, land area and population. There is a car for every 1.3 people and the main reason that there are so many accidents is that drivers engaged in other activities, being the main speaking by cell phone while they handle. According to reports of mileage and accident insurance, Miami qualifies as the first State with deaths by motor vehicle accidents, runover of pedestrians and verbal clashes auto car"so if have to go, walk carefully.


4 Russia

Being the largest country in the world, their drivers enjoy in the collective imagination of the reputation of being the most dangerous driving given that most of them has "dash-cam" - a camera on the dashboard of the car recording the journeys and going up to the network the videos-. The reason why he made this curious activity is simple, the Russian courts do not like verbal claims that physical evidence is needed so that they can send people who commit breaches of the prison. So the next time you find a compilation of these videos, you know why.


5 Brazil

It is the fifth largest country in the globe and recently officials are concerned by the repetition of the road accidents and whether roads are good condition or if the infrastructure requires substantial improvement, deaths from such accidents is second with 42,000 deaths according to the Ministry of health in this country. According to the Inter-American Development Bank, the lack of driver education and little awareness in the way users are the main causes.


6 Iran

This country located in the middle is the second largest in the world--after Russia--natural gas reserves and has become the world leader in natural gas vehicles with more than 2.9 million in circulation, according to the latest figures of the Knowledge Base of Natural Gas vehicles. However, this position does not exempt it from road accidents. The main culprits of these mishaps are pedestrians, so has stipulated in the regulation to the new traffic law, between two and five years in prison and a fine of 5% of the basic salary unified as a penalty for pedestrian causing a traffic accident which leave people dead or severely injured. Also, police are checking vehicles exceeding the speed limits on the roads with the help of the fotoradares and on average they have sanctioned more than 6,000 drivers nationwide.


7 Mexico

The vehicle fleet in our country reached 26.8 million, and each year are reported around 4.2 million car accidents, of which at least 76 per cent occurs in urban areas, according to the National Council for the prevention of accidents. According to the Center for experimentation and road safety (Cesvi), the human factor is the main cause of the mishaps since motorists do not respect speed limits, not stored away, invaded the opposite lane, improperly turned over, are distracted, not to give way, carelessly maneuvering in reverse, slumber either, there are objects in the road or malfunctions in the way that contribute to accidents.


8 Indonesia

It comprises about 17.508 Islands, inhabited by more than 237 million people, Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and having more Muslims. The authorities of this island country consider that accidents have increased before the increase in vehicles and to reduce these events who annually come to the life of tens of thousands of Indonesians, the Ministry of transportation will strengthen the road discipline in the nation, and contribute in improving signs, conditions of streets and roads that often lead to those events.


9 South Africa

There are 30 road accidents per 100,000 inhabitants in this country located to the South of the African continent and if we take into account that there are a total of 50.59 million people, is not a significant figure. STOA most accidents occur on public transport so that the number of passengers increases the statistics. Also, these are due to the poor state of the units accompanied by the recklessness of drivers.


10 Egypt

It is one of the countries with more people in Africa and Middle East and traffic accidents or railway are frequent in this territory since transport anarchically, circulate the old vehicle fleet, the poor state of the roads and the application of traffic laws is inefficient. While tourism is one of the main activities, the donkeys, carriages, cars without seat belt and trucks going beyond its ability to reign the streets.