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Another week, another 25,000 killed on the world's roads
Last week was the First UN Global Road Safety Week and much was made of the risk of road crashes to young road users, who account for a quarter of the total death tolli. During those seven days, 25,000 died on the roads, as will again this week and the week after. The only difference will be the lack of press articles about such carnage.
Last week's victims included:
- 25 killed in China when an overloaded bus ran off a highway overpass and fell 13 metres to the ground.
- Eight dead in Indiana when a semi-trailer ran into a queue of traffic at a construction site.
- Seven killed in the Philippines when a jeep hit a bus on a highway.
- Six killed in Vietnam when a lorry overturned and the passengers travelling in the back were thrown out.
- Five killed in a two-car collision in South Australia-their worst crash in a decade.
- Five more killed in a head-on crash in Kansas
- Two killed when a vehicle being chased by the police in London hit a group of pedestrians.
- David Halberstram, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist, whose reporting helped award winning journalist whose turn the tide against the Vietnam war.
- Chris Di Paolo, Ashwell Prison governor, who died two months after suffering head injuries in a crash, and so will not be included in the official statistics as a road death victim.
- Elizabeth Panton, a grandmother killed at a London bus stop, and her daughter and granddaughter who survived but suffered amputations.
- Toby Eaton-Baudains, a Raleigh International charity project manager, in a crash involving a van and a parked lorry in Borneo.
And RoadPeace knows only too well the profound impact of these sudden and violent deaths on the bereaved families - for every person killed, there is a family shattered forever. Alan Ball, the former English footballer, who died last week from a heart attack, was devastated when his father was killed in a crash in Cyprus twenty five years ago.
Over 1.3 million people are currently killed in road crashes each year. Nine out of ten of these deaths occur in low and middle income countries, where official statistics severely underestimate the road death toll. For instance, China reports a yearly average road death toll of 100,000, but the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 250,000 are killed each year on China's roads.
RoadPeace, the national charity for road crash victims in the UK, would like to remind the media that road deaths are an ongoing epidemic, responsible for more deaths than malaria, and should not be dismissed as mere accidents.
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Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for every age from 2 through 33 years old. Vehicle occupants accounted for 87 percent of traffic fatalities in 2002.
In 2005, an average of 120 people died each day in motor vehicle crashes throughout the United States.
The economic cost of speeding-related crashes is estimated to be $40.4 billion each year.
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