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[–] Safetyshaft@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/road-accident-deaths-rise-to-177-lakh-in-2024-gadkari/article70361512.ece 485 people die per day on Indian roads, 177,000+ people a year, and a figure that is likely underreported given the stances of several international organizations such as the WHO.

https://morth.nic.in/sites/default/files/Annual-Report-English-with-Cover.pdf Here is the data from India’s own govt agency overseeing Road Transport and Highways.

India also has a significant underreporting problem confirmed by multiple independent studies. Some suggesting that fatal accidents are as much as 40% under-reported https://tripc.iitd.ac.in/assets/publication/RSI_2023_web.pdf

Conversely, the US suffers less than 40k traffic deaths per year, approximately 110 persons per day. https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/ViewPublication/813729

https://aashtojournal.transportation.org/nhtsa-projects-decline-in-traffic-fatalities-for-2024/

The US is a far more litigious society with more people reporting basic accidents vs in India as well.

LA county has a much higher accident rate because of far more population density and 8.2m vehicles vs Santa Clara’s 1.8m https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/uploads/2021/02/estimated_fee_paid_by_county_report.pdf

You can keep living in your fantasy world where you aren’t providing sources for your data. Come live here and experience it.