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Yes, but that's only because most countries with horrible numbers don't have any data in that column and end up at the bottom. If you sort by anything else the USA is far far from the worst country.



If you look at the numbers and compare it to say Poland or Germany you'd get 2x-4x higher death numbers for any metrics.

Also the fact US statistic per mile are so high, despise it being a big country where I'd imagine most miles were highway ones probably hides even higher rate of accidents in cities.


Yes, the numbers aren't great, especially if you compare to other developed countries. The claim was most pedestrians killed per mile driven of any country, and that's simply ridiculous.




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