| Just a note. Switzerland ranks better than the UK. By inhabitants: Switzerland (2.6), Sweden (2.8) and UK (2.9). By motor vehicles: Switzerland (3.6), Finland (4.4), Sweden (4.7) and UK (5.1). By number of kilometres driven: Sweden (3.5), Switzerland (3.6) and UK (3.6). I'd also note that most European countries are hot on the heels of the UK, Sweden and Switzerland by the above measures. By comparison, the US numbers are 10.6, 12.9 and 7.1, respectively. Most European countries are well below those numbers. Particularly in Western European and Nordic countries, the driving tests are very strict. Even for all the stereotypes, France's numbers of 5.1, 7.6 and 5.8 are quite good, and they are moving in the right direction. Sources: * http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_st... * https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/transport/road-safety-annual-r... Notes: I use death rate, not incidents/accidents rate. I ignored "smaller" countries for the above listing, such as San Marino and Kiribati. All numbers are from 2015, and they are also presented in the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... |