India and the US are among the five countries with the world’s deadliest roads

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Niharika Sharma

PublishedMay 16, 2022

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India has the world’s fifth-most unsafe roads.

It scored 5.48 out of 10 in a study by driver’s education company Zutobi. The survey considered five factors—WHO’s road traffic death figures, the maximum motorway speed limit, seat-belt wearing, deaths due to the influence of alcohol, and blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit for drivers.

South Africa has the most unsafe roads, it showed.

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