China roads world's deadliest

It's none too surprising with the boom in car sales in China the number of accidents and fatalities would also rise. Surprisingly the culture treats cars with a healthy does of obsession and the wait for costly driving schools is long and the price high. A course can cost between $380 to $520, while the average Chinese citizen makes about $1,000 a year. This doesn't sound good though: "Motorists swerve across several lanes of traffic to exit a highway, drive in bicycle lanes, veer across oncoming traffic for left turns and merge with nary a glance over their shoulders." They actually have a term for these kinds of drivers in China, "Road Killers." The country has 1.9% of the worlds cars but accounts for 15% of global fatalities, more than twice as many deaths than in the U.S. and we have 30% of the world's cars. These statistics are frightening.

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