Who says?

Traffic Deadlier Than Wars, WHO Says

Traffic kills four times as many people as wars and far more people commit suicide than are murdered, the World Health Organization said today.

Death rates from road accidents, burns and drownings were particularly high in Africa and Asia, and homicides were three times as frequent as suicides in Africa and the Americas.

But in Europe and Southeast Asia, suicide rates were more than double murder rates.

You evil drivers!

Update
I thought maybe it was the US that was violent, but according to WHO,

The interpersonal violence mortality rates in males in the low and middle income countries of the Americas is twice that in any other region.

But geez, in 2000, Road traffic Incidents accounted for 1,260,000 deaths worldwide, Interpersonal violence, 520,000, and War and conflict is way down the list at 310,000.

Meanwhile, speaking of evil automobilistas, SARS Boosts Bike Travel in Beijing By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN:

Warned by health experts to avoid crowds, Beijing commuters are shunning buses and subways and switching back to the two-wheeler - the classic transportation of China's 1970s "bicycle armies."

Possibly healthier, too, although with the bad air, maybe not.