Last year, road accidents killed 73 thousand Chinese.

For the 2008 victims of traffic accidents were 73,484 residents of China, the news agency Xinhua on 4 January.
Total for the year have been more than 265 thousand of car accidents. In addition to nearly 73.5 thousand dead, injured about 305 thousand people. According to the Ministry of Public Security listed the statistics, the number of deaths compared to 2007 fell by 19 per cent, the number of victims - a 20 per cent, while the total number of accidents - 10 per cent.
Losses from the accident was 1.01 billion yuan (some 148 million U.S. dollars), an increase of 15.8 per cent less than in 2007.
Reducing the number of accidents officials explained the many campaigns to promote safe driving, including those associated in the Olympic Games in Beijing.