The country already has one of the world's highest accident rates, with more than 80,000 traffic-related deaths a year.

Of the 42,815 traffic-related deaths last year in the United States, 4,808 were pedestrians.

Lesotho has a high number of traffic-related deaths and injuries given its small size.

The rainfall resulted in slick roads, which caused two traffic-related deaths, and a woman was killed after being injured by rough surf.

There were 100 traffic-related deaths in the city during all of last year.

The United States had 18 traffic-related deaths for every 100,000 residents in 1993.

While no casualties are directly blamed on the storm, at least one traffic-related death took place.

While traffic-related deaths for all other age groups fell over the past decade, those for 16-year-olds increased.

Injuries of the trachea cause about 1% of traffic-related deaths.

In the first 11 months of 2003, some 120,000 people died in accidents broadly classified as related to work, including traffic-related deaths, according to government statistics.