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Oh, and if you really want to read about 'war' on the roads, read this:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/dec/09/world-most-lethal-road-bangladesh
The death toll in poorer countries especially is absolutely terrifying; they are going through what European countries went through after the Second World War, and often worse. Even in Europe, crash rates in the former Eastern Bloc countries are far worse than in Western Europe.
Nonetheless, terrible things happen here, too; a friend of mine once worked on a documentary about the A3 motorway in Germany, one of the most notorious. There was a case of a man who somehow jumped over a crash barrier in his car and crashed into a nearby patch of forest, getting trapped in his car and dying because nobody found him (no evidence on the motorway of the crash having happened). They later found evidence that he must have been alive for about three days with a severe injury.