Driving abroad may be stressful, especially when you take into account the diverse road conditions, traffic patterns, laws, and driving customs. New evidence, however, indicates that driving in certain well-known tourist locations is worse than in others. More than 2000 drivers worldwide were asked to rank the nations that have been the scariest, most stressful, or most hazardous to drive in in a poll conducted by the UK automotive website Scrap car Comparison.

Which country has the world's scariest roads?
India was rated as the scariest country to drive in by international drivers, who gave it a 7.15 out of 10 "scare score," according to Scrap car Comparison.
 
The South Asian nation also has the greatest number of traffic deaths worldwide in terms of raw volume.
 
As previously reported by Drive, 168,491 of the 461,312 traffic incidents that occurred on indian roads in 2022 ended in fatalities. For comparison, that is around 146 times more than the 1152 national toll that australia reported in the same year.
 
Several international assessments claim that India's very high road toll is mostly caused by several important issues, including poor road infrastructure, loose traffic laws, and reckless driving practices.
 
With a score of 6.97, respondents ranked venezuela as the second most dangerous country to drive in, right behind India. In the case of the South American nation, poor road quality has resulted from a combination of excessive rainfall, flooding, and neglect.
 
Many nations, including australia, have warned foreign drivers about the safety hazards commonly observed on Venezuelan roads due to this, the absence of law enforcement, and uncontrolled traffic conditions.

With a scare score of 6.9/10, Zimbabwe, an African country, was ranked as the third-scariest place to drive.
 
Zimbabwe in particular has recorded an increasing number of pedestrian deaths as a result of deadly incidents involving vulnerable road users and public vehicles, even though pedestrian safety—or the lack thereof—is a common denominator throughout the nations mentioned.
 
Consequently, in 2023, Zimbabwean traffic officials ordered that Public service vehicles (PSVs), such as buses, be equipped with speed-limiting devices.
 
According to Zimbabwe's Traffic Council, "every PSV shall be fitted with a speed limiting device so that such vehicles will not exceed 100km/h" under the new rule.
 
With a driver fright score of 6.87/10, morocco came in fourth place among the nations included in the poll.
 

 
 
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SIBY JEYYA

23/10/2024 10:09 AM