Chinanews ,Beijing, October 8 – In 1951, only 852 Chinese died of car accidents, while the figure in 2002 had broken 109 thousand.Before 2000, the death toll caused by car accidents had leaped by 100% every 10 years. Since that year, nearly 100 thousand people have been killed by such accidents every year, and another 500 thousand injured, taking up 8% of the global total.2002 was the year when the casualty of car accidents reached its top. Since then, things have started to look up.The number of people killed by car accidents in every 100,000 varies much in different places in China. Chongqing is the lowest in this aspect, for only 2 in every 100,000 people are killed by such accidents, while Tibet is the top, with 23 in every 100,000 being killed.In 2005, Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shandong provinces had the largest number of people who were killed in car accidents.Statistics show that 60% of people killed by car accidents are pedestrians, ordinary passengers and bicyclists, and 75% of fatal accidents happened on highways.