Horrific highway pile-up kills 18 in China

Sucks man... sad to read. rest in peace to the departed.

Perhapse they should have stuck to bicycles and not repeated the mistakes we made. An efficient and cheap public transport system negates a lot of the need for cars, and lorries are only cheaper than rail in most cases because they do not have to pay the real cost of infrastructure creation and maintenance.

“China suffered more than 180,000 traffic accidents in 2015, killing 58,000 people, authorities said last year.”

This is at least the second time this palpably false statistic has appeared in a JT story. Quite contrary to the intention of whoever it was that wrote the story, a three to one accident to death ratio, if it were true, would suggest that Chinese drivers are by far and away the best in the world.

oyatoi, you make an unsupported assertion that the stats are false, if they are please show the evidence or data set upon which your assertion is based.

english asparagus

Well, if you insist.

In 2010, there were an estimated 5,419,000 crashes, killing 32,999 (USA crash stats from Wiki)

englisc aspyrgendNov. 15  09:46 pm JST Perhapse they should have stuck to bicycles and not repeated the mistakes we made.

I've never understood why formerly command economies with highly centralized planning, and that really applied to Japan until quite recently, didn't choose to leapfrog the developed world wherever and when ever possible. It wasn't like the Chinese or Indians had, have any say in the matter and all insisted that the government promote the widespread development of coal-fired power plants and relax the rules regarding private car ownership. The limitations of solar and wind powered electrical generation pale in the face of the environmental and health costs of coal and oil fired power generation. While the Chinese seem to be heading the right direction, it could have begun at least decade earlier. Indian is, however, heading in the opposite direction.

I wonder how many of the fatalities in this series of collisions resulted from not wearing seatbelts? The headline photo shows mostly a lot rearending with only the one car and truck heavily damaged.

oyatoiNov. 15  09:54 pm JST “China suffered more than 180,000 traffic accidents in 2015, killing 58,000 people, authorities said last year.”

This is at least the second time this palpably false statistic has appeared in a JT story. Quite contrary to the intention of whoever it was that wrote the story, a three to one accident to death ratio, if it were true, would suggest that Chinese drivers are by far and away the best in the world.

Your statistical analysis skills are wanting. If the statistic for China is correct, a 3-1 collision to fatality rate is astronomically high. The U.S. has about 1.5 million auto collisions a year resulting in about 35,000 fatalities, or .02 deaths per collision.

Your statistical analysis skills are wanting. If the statistic for China is correct, a 3-1 collision to fatality rate is astronomically high.

Mostly car vs. pedestrian fatalities no doubt.

Jeff Huffman

It’s the old ‘lies and damned lies’ thing. The numbers can be interpreted both ways. ie So many deaths from so few accidents can be taken as an appalling indictment of Chinese road safety. On the other hand, the statistic of 180K accidents for the whole of China (an obviously incorrect figure and contrary to common sense) suggests that China has outstanding road safety.