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World's Worst Transportation Disasters
NY,USA -Forbes, by Robert Malone -5 Jan 2007: -- With respect to disasters, as the saying goes, we ain't seen nothing yet. With the scale of transportation rising, with the sizes escalating of airplanes, ships and other means of carrying people from one point to another, the scale of life-threatening disasters is rising as well... The number of tractor trailer and tanker trucks has grown as well. In 2004, there were 416,000 in the U.S. alone. They were involved in 4,862 fatalities, though with a concerted effort to reduce truck accidents, the rate of accidents involving such vehicles has shrunk steadily since 1994. There is a good deal of pressure from the National Highway Safety Administration to hold trucks to a maximum speed of 68 miles per hour... Disasters are not spread around the globe equally. India for instance, has five times the number of road accidents per capita than the U.S. With a population of 300 million and more than 250 million vehicles, the U.S. has about 43,000 fatalities on the road. India, with a population of slightly more than 1 billion, has 50 million vehicles and over 100,000 fatalities...
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