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> That'd be much more likely to happen on an American road with its 40000/yr fatalities that everyone casually accepts as a pragmatic trade-off worth having ;)

India’s traffic fatality rate is 12.6 per 100k, which is about the same as the US’ at 14.2. India has a very low car ownership rate, and US a very high one, so I dunno that I’d be so quick to judge in your shoes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...



It's likely the traffic fatalities are much higher than they appear on Wikipedia.

https://www.dataforindia.com/road-accident-deaths/




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