<i>Think about it, this is a country of 1.3 billion people. How often does this actually happen?</i><p>In the Slate Plus special feature section, the author of the article shared statistics on how frequently traffic accidents result in death in China, compared with the United States.  In 2013 in the US there were 32,719 deaths, compared to over two million injuries in traffic accidents.  That means that, in the United States, there are 70 injuries per every traffic death.  According to China&#x27;s Xinhua News Agency, the ratio of traffic injuries to deaths in China is <i></i>four to one<i></i>.