India bus plunge 'leaves 45 dead'

[NewsCaster]

Police in India say 45 people have been killed after a bus in which they were travelling plunged down a deep gorge.

More... (http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/news/int/search/news%2Bsport/bus/-/2/hi/south_asia/7709231.stm)

[G-CPTN]

Road accidents are common in India and claim hundreds of lives each year.So how many are killed each year in road crashes in the UK? I believe that the figure is about 3000 (and that is for a much lower population than India). The numbers for India have to be much higher than suggested.

[Western SMT]

Road deaths in India is about 90,000 a year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6661757.stm

[G-CPTN]

And that is with only about 1% of the World's vehicles . . .

Edited to add:- Such accidents account for nearly 8% of the world's total fatalities.

[Western SMT]

The UN estimate annual road deaths are 1.1 million and is number one killer of young people aged 10 - 24 worldwide.

[Western SMT]

Found this little snippet of info -

"Citing Ward's Motor Vehicle Facts & Figures, 1999, this almanac reports that, in 1996, the most recent date covered, there were 485,954,000 cars registered worldwide, and 185,404,000 trucks and buses, for a total, worldwide, of 671,358,000 motor vehicles."