Death from road traffic injuries (RTI) and in particular Motor vehicle Traffic Accidents (MVTA) have been characterized worldwide as a hidden epidemic which affects all sectors of society.
An estimated 1.26 million people worldwide died in 2000 from RTI, 90% of them in low and middle income countries.
In 2000, the RTI mortality rate for the world was 20.8 per 1,00,000 population"
http://www.icfmt.org/vol3no1/allahabad.htm
What we need is a worldwide ban on [privately-owned] vehicles and/or more governments' "control" (including fines and possibly jail sentences) for drivers who refuse to turn in their vehicles to said Governments
Kofi, are your listening? An absolute "must" for UN to consider as this is definitely a "Human Rights Issue."
Just think of the additional 1 1/4 million lives a year we can save. /sarc
That statement reminds me of a scene from True Grit. Glen Campbell had missed a bad guy and shot the bad guy's horse instead. John Wayne says something like "Here's the great horse shooter from Texas. 'Believes in puttin' every body afoot. Thinks there'll be less mischief that way.
