The toll of car accidents in Israel has decreased by 25% during the first 8 months of 2009, according to the car safety national beauru in Israel. 293 people died in 2008 and 219 people died in 2009 which makes approximately 25% drop in the road accidents. If we compare this year’s result with 2004, the drop is even more significant from 359 to 219 (39% drop). Here is a great source that summarizes the trends in Israel and some bench mark to other countries as well.

The most interesting insight that came to mind was… 0.5% (1 out of 200) persons are hurt every year from car accidents. There are 4 members in my family, so the chance of any person of my family to get hit by a car accident is 2% every year. Since the average life expectancy in Israel is over 70. The chance that one of the family members will be hit by a car accident is over 140%… This makes it a problem for every person in Israel and on the face of this planet.

Additional Sources

Other valuable sources that you can refer to are: OR Yarok is one of the leading organizations is Israel which contributes to car accidents. Another valuable source is a book written by Dan Mocuas concerning car accidents. You can purchase this book from this website. The last source is in English and it is focused on car accidents in Israel. This item was written in Cafe The Marker few hours ago… The discussion is intriguing.

These are several great sources about the global stats – Wikipedia page about car collisions is an extremely informative link. Safe Car Guide is reporting that India has more injuries per year than Europe and America combined! Reporting Statistics is providing a list of many valuable sources for global car accidents stats.

LET’S TAKE A STAND TOGETHER TO MAKE OUR PLANET SAFER!

I have planned to launch a new business in 2009 that will be centrally focused on reducing the car accidents globally.  I have even planned to sign agreements with several vendors with proven technology that can reduce car accidents by 50%.  My long term goal is to diminish the total amount of people getting injured from car accidents per year by 99% or more… Currently 40 Million people are hurt globally every year. I think this can be reduced to less than 100K in 20 years which makes a drop of more than 99%.

Anyone who wants to join me in this cause is more than welcome!