The World Health Organization global status report on road safety makes for shocking reading. Over 3000 people die on the world's roads every day -- and over 90 percent of the deaths occur in low-income and middle-income countries, which have only 48 percent of the world's registered vehicles.
Tens of millions of people are injured or disabled every year. Nearly 1.3 million people are killed each year. If trends continue unabated, deaths will rise to an estimated 2.4 million a year by 2030.
The report is the first broad assessment of the road safety situation in 178 countries, using data drawn from a standardized survey.