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Since we're making ethnocentric assumptions and making comparisons between the USA and India, perhaps our building standards encourage safe public infrastructure?

Perhaps if India was more like the USA, safe road travel would improve - and consequently - their 172k traffic fatalities would fall to a more acceptable level (by the way there are doubts this figure is correct - people speculate it's much higher)?

And before you complain about the population difference, I checked the per capita rates of traffic fatalities. India outpaces the USA by quite a bit.

By the way, this is all an apples and oranges comparison. Building standards has nothing to do with road fatalities.