One American dies every 36 hours in a foreign highway accident, and 40 percent of these expire in Mexico, according to statistics published recently by USA Today. That high percentage is because more Americans visit Mexico than any other country, the newspaper reported. The figures were gathered by Make Roads Safe, a non-profit group working with The United Nations. Thailand and the Dominican Republic came in second and third after Mexico in regard to highway fatalities.
Oddly, highway accidents are not a major concern for tourists visiting Mexico. Most worry about the highly publicized gun battles fought daily between narcotics smugglers fighting either each other or Mexican law enforcement agencies. No American tourists have been killed, or even injured, in these clashes.
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Jimm Budd
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