7 Responses to “Order of Magnitude Quiz: Indian highway deaths”

1. David Weinberger, on April 1st, 2006 at 9:22 am Said:

   The Boston Globe reports it’s two hundred and seventy.

2. Fred, on April 1st, 2006 at 10:23 am Said:

   Hi David,

   And 270 is not that much for two reasons: 1- there is 1.1 or 1.2 billions people and 2- they call these trail “roads” but I could not call what is happing on them “traffic”… this is the chaos, have you already been there? It is awesome; an extreme sport for sure (specially when you are on the roof of a bus with 30 other Indians, talking with a cellular phone, going to 80km/h while doing slalom between goats, sheeps, cars, trucks, cycle, etc).

   I saw the first western highways somewhere near Agra, but I knew that I was in India because all the time some Tata trucks of at least 10 tons were on you way, doing face-to-face at 80km/h, without caring about anything.

   Salutations,

   Fred

3. David Weinberger, on April 1st, 2006 at 10:54 am Said:

   Yes, I have been there, and I’ve witnessed how horns replace lane markers on the highway. (I’d love to go back.)

   But even for a country India’s size, that’s still a lot of deaths, which is why it made it onto the front page of the Globe.

4. Marc Majcher, on April 1st, 2006 at 12:06 pm Said:

   For comparison, there are about 42,000 highway/driving deaths per year in the U.S. – that’s around 115 per day. Our population is just under 300,000 – about a quarter of India’s. Seems like we’re the ones with the more horrifying statistics.

5. David Weinberger, on April 1st, 2006 at 12:35 pm Said:

   Damn you and your math, Marc!

   You’re totally right, of course. Wow.

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7. Paty Pruett, on August 11th, 2006 at 9:22 pm Said:

   Dear blog guys
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   If you have a brain for the legal sides of life
   you should go to another site called -Courthouse Forum.com–go to Courthouse Hound–that’s me!
   Read our complaints about our Nevada law and Judicial officials. Have a blast!
   Happy reading, thank you. Patty
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