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The statistics show that nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year - on average 3,287 deaths a day. An additional 20-50 million are injured or disabled. Road traffic accidents rank as the ninth leading cause of death and account for 2.2 per cent of all deaths globally.8 By comparison, deaths from plane crashes totalled 303 in 2016 and just 79 in 2017.