How many people die in car crashes each year?

This number changes from year to year and is hard to accurately record especially in undeveloped nations, as some countries do not publish these figures it is impossible to say exactly. However, in 2001 there were an estimated 984,000 deaths resulting from traffic accidents worldwide.

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