China: Cars and Road Accidents

There have been more and more cars in China for the last years, but also too many road accidents. Most of us have alreary taken taxi, bus or motocycles in China as transport. The most curious thing is wherever you may go, you shall see a car accident or accident involving motocycles. Most of them do not respect any codes on the road beause they do not have any driving license or think they are not concerned by any safety or codes. Sometimes the accident is not serious but sometimes it drives to death.

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The video shows you common road accidents in China that with a little sense of civility, people could avoid it.

Road Accidents video

Almost 73,500 people died in road accidents in China last year in 2008, according to official figures.
In 2008, 265,204 road accidents killed 73,484 people and injured 304,919 others nationwide, down 19 percent, 10 percent and 20 percent respectively from 2007, the traffic administration bureau under the Ministry of Public Security said here.
Losses from these accidents were estimated at 1.01 billion yuan (148 million U.S. dollars), dropping 15.8 percent from 2007.