India bus plunge 'leaves 45 dead'
 

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

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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.

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

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

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

Edited to add:-

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

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."