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Andrew Price
Former Web Editor, GOOD.is

March 11, 2010 • 12:30 pm PST
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Next Generation Healthcare has an interesting graphic showing how many deaths there are from road traffic accidents in different parts of the world. The takeaway: Cars are dangerous, especially in developing counties. You can see the full version here.

I'm confused about a few things though. First, on that big map, what's the time period we're looking at? And second, it looks like Africa and the Americas both had exactly 234,768 car-related fatalities. Is that an error or a crazy coincidence?

Via Infrastructurist.

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Tags: health,; transportation,; cars

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