Christopher Groskopf reported on the relationship between governance and traffic fatalities:

• A statistical analysis found that the more corrupt a country is, the greater the number of road accidents it has.
• This is driven in part by corrupt governments being more likely to siphon infrastructure funds away for other purposes.
• Corrupt countries might also have corrupt traffic police that take bribes instead of punishing people for traffic violations.
• And there is a relationship between income and corruption. Traffic fatalities began to go down once a people’s income increases above $10,000 per capita. It’s usually uncorrupt governments that are able to manage this.

See a visualization of the data and read more about the study here.

Source: Quartz