There is a time-honoured tradition in the Western world to export deadly problems to the developing world. Thus, we don't fight wars in Europe any more, we fight them elsewhere. We ban smoking practically everywhere here, while tobacco export to poor countries is still increasing. Think sweatshops, pollution, etc. all our problems have gone, and they have gone elsewhere.

I didn't realise, however, that this also applies to road deaths, and they, too have been exported, until I read George Monbiot's column this week:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cars/story/0,,2079711,00.html

Note that there has been a response in defense of the Commission for Global Road Safety:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2081146,00.html

which however fails to address one of Monbiot's key arguments, namely that policy made by motoring organisations will end up banning pedestrians and cyclists from the public space.