Quote Originally Posted by Jonsims View Post
Can we take the Chinese statistics at face value?


I think the only thing that would lend credence to those numbers would be Americans ride big bikes at fast speeds and Chinese ride tiny bikes at low speeds. The chances of a person dying at 60km/h are far less than 120 km/h.

All figures in China are suspect, just like the laws, because each region of this country is its own fiefdom. They never report honest figures to a central body, and then the central body that represents the "face" of the nation has to gloss them over to save face. Just look at the bullshit hiding in that report "up to 122,300 in 2003, which was the highest, and then gradually decreased." F#$% me, I was here in 2003 - 2005 and all I saw was more and more and more bikes and accidents, how did the number decrease? Look at the percentage of motorcyclists killed vs injured in the USA (5000 killed vs 165,000 injured) yet China has 26,200 deaths vs 157,500 injured . Do the math and I think it's safe to say that China probably has over 500,000 motorcycle accidents per year. Hell, I saw one youtube video of a single intersection that had like twenty in 3 months.

As far as education goes, they need to teach morality, not skills. It's morals that make people yield to pedestrians and wave you through at an intersection.

Cheers!
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