Car accidents kill more Yemenis than violence
Poor infrastructure is largely to blame for the more than 2,000 yearly deaths on Yemen’s roads.
Cars in Yemen are instruments of death as much as a means of transportation. The 1 million vehicles cruising the streets of Yemen are more dangerous than the 60 million firearms in the country — in times of peace, of course.
In Yemen, al-Qaeda cells are actively killing civilians and soldiers, bloody wars are ravaging the south and the far north, and US drones strike at any time. But the biggest danger to your life is a traffic accident on a public highway.