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Surprisingly, from all the touring books I've read, most of the incident occur in developed world countries, such as America, UK, France etc.
Despite people's advice on how to be careful in developing world countries, it's actually the developed world countries we have to look out for.
My theory is that we're so worried about the developing countries that we already are a little careful, much like riding without a helmet that you're perhaps more aware of what you might become if you crashed, but when riding in a developed countries, you're a lots more relaxed because you know bad thing rarely happened there, quite akin to riding with a helmet, giving the sense of security, and before you know it, bang.
It happened to Barbara Savage who wrote a book called "Miles from Nowhere: A Round the World Bicycle Adventure", she sadly got killed in a collision with a motorised vehicle in her home town of the US despite surviving her tour with her husband around the world having some near misses (especially in India).