I just stumbled across this set of facts:

"Every year more than 1.17 million people die in road crashes around the world. The majority of these deaths, about 70 percent occur in developing countries. Sixty-five percent of deaths involve pedestrians and 35 percent of pedestrian deaths are children"

http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/transport/roads/safety.htm

I had no idea that so many of the road crash deaths were of people not in the cars. It makes our discussion about how safe it is to be inside an SUV in a crash kind of irrelevant.