NOT all cars are created equal. Some cars are built safer in Japan, the United States and Europe than in the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries.

This partly explains why out of the 1.24 million deaths and 50 million injuries from road crashes worldwide every year, 80 percent of the fatalities take place in middle-income countries and 12 percent in low-income countries. This is the tragic truth although together the middle- and low-income countries have only about half of the world’s vehicles.

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