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rok_the-boat

Joined: 24 Jan 2004
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:08 am Post subject: South Korea Leads OECD in Motor Vehicle Accidents |
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http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200512/kt2005122717555911960.htm
Surprise Surprise
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South Korea has the largest number of car accidents and the largest death toll from them among members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), according to a report by the Road Traffic Safety Authority.
The authority attributed the phenomenon to jaywalking.
The report said the nation had 137 car accidents per 10,000 cars in 2003, ranking the top among OECD member countries.
Japan ranked second with 117 accidents per 10,000 cars, Belgium with 90 accidents, and the United States with 85 cases.
It was about six times more than the 21 cases of Luxembourg, which had the least car accidents among the 28 nations.
Korea also topped at the category of the number of deaths from car accidents, with 15 out of 100,000 people dying from the accidents in 2003. Poland and Portugal followed the list as 14.8 people among 100,000 died from accidents, and the U.S. 14.7, and Greece 14.6.
``In advanced countries, the number of collisions between vehicles is larger than that of accidents between vehicles and pedestrians. But in Korea, about 40.2 percent of the total accidents were cases of vehicles hitting pedestrians,���� Lee Eui-yong, an employee of the authority, said. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2005 7:57 am Post subject: |
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``In advanced countries, the number of collisions between vehicles is larger than that of accidents between vehicles and pedestrians. But in Korea, about 40.2 percent of the total accidents were cases of vehicles hitting pedestrians,���� Lee Eui-yong, an employee of the authority, said. |
Cars, trucks and buses are relatively large. I can see why they sometimes hit each other. People, on the other hand make much smaller targets and therefore are harder to hit. My conclusion is that use of steel chopsticks in childhood gives Korean drivers better aim when they get behind the wheel. |
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