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Old 10-01-16 | 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by hubcyclist
I can attest to the crazy Portuguese driver thing. My parents are from there and I've been several times and the drivers are fast and aggressive, even on winding mountain roads. It's nuts.
It is actually hard data to get and I can't find it now. It needs to be fatalities/mile driven. Many world stats are based on fatalities/population fatalities/car owned.

For USA 2014: to 1.18 deaths per 100 million miles traveled
http://www.nsc.org/learn/about/Pages...cles-2014.aspx

Closest thing I can find now is Brazil - they speak Portuguese - 55.9/1B km = 620M miles or 9 deaths/100M miles, so 5X the USA rate for the same distance. I recall Portugal being higher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ted_death_rate
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