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Abstract: 

Traffic safety professionals frequently view vehicle crashes through a myopic nationalistic lens. We think in the United States of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data. If we are in Albany, Helena, or Olympia, we think of our state data. At the local level, we compare our department with our neighboring town’s enforcement data. But as Al Gore constantly tells us, we must think globally. In the next 20 years, more Americans traveling abroad will die in automobile, truck, and motorcycle crashes than will probably be killed by terrorists, muggers, disease, or acts of nature. This article discusses fatality rates of automobile accidents on a global scale.

Keywords: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; The World Health Organization (WHO);

Affiliations:  1: Editor.