Driving Overseas

We have seen Dr Tracey Koehlmoos before.  In this blog post she says farewell to her husband, Colonel Randall Koehlmoos, who died in a traffic accident in Jakarta, about a week ago.  He was coming home from the gym.

The title of the blog post is "ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES—FAREWELL TO THE COLONEL".  The striking quote is:

Despite being home to less than 50% of the world's motor vehicles, low and middle income countries have 90% of the mortality burden for road traffic accidents.

That is a lot of wastage of life.  It is 1.3 million deaths a year and 20 to 50 million injured and possibly disabled.

Regards  —  Cliff