Worldwide annually from road accidents killed over 1.2 million

Published by crashbg

May 2, 2008

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) annually in road accidents killed 1 200 000 people and 50 million others have different degrees of injuries. More black is forecast to a WHO-2020, when a car accident on the road will be the third cause of most mass death in the world after the stroke and AIDS. The first car accident in the world on 12 February 1898 in England. Then dies in car crash driver of the car first. This is 42 years trader from London Lindfild Henry (Henry Lindfield). On the way from London to Brighton he developed speed of 30 km / h, which definitely was not allowed at that time and then the outskirts of London izpusnal management of the car and zabil in roadside tree. In the incident his leg was stuck between the car and the tree and should be amputiran. As of shoka and loss of blood, however, the hospital Lindfild rest. But it is not the first victim of the car. Two years earlier, on 17 August 1896 is the first pedestrian killed by car blasnat. This is Englishwoman Driskol Bridget (Bridget Driscoll) which was hit by a car moving with "stunning" speed of 6.5 km / h and died on the spot by head trauma. Police established that it is a fatality, and 20 year old driver was not charged with anything. "We believe that we never something will happen," concluded therefore Scotland Yard. From then until today, according to the British organization RoadPeace, on the roads of the world as a result of road accidents killed over 30 million people. The data of the World Health Organization for more than 25 million killed in road accidents. Annually in our time die in 1.2 million as a result of road accidents and catastrophes. A day that makes 3 287 killed worldwide. Casual injured for the same reasons are 140 000 people, with 15 000 of them left with permanent consequences of the accident. If the rate of increase of victims of road accidents remain stable in 2020 to more victims will be 65 percent more compared with the current situation. If that happens, cars will be the third cause mass death on the planet after stroke and AIDS. Nowadays cars are the ninth spot in this sad rating. Striking are the WHO data for material losses as a result of road accidents. Year they exceed 518 billion dollars. According to data of OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) most victims of road accidents per 100 thousand inhabitants within Greece, the United States and Poland. In OECD data no such Bulgaria. The country annually killed over 1 000 people in a car accident. In a population of about 8 million people that is 12.5 per 100 thousand. Annual material losses from road accidents in Bulgaria, according to World Bank data are 500 million or nearly 2 percent of gross domestic product of the country.