According to the World Health Organization, approximately how many people are killed globally in motor vehicle crashes each year?

• A. 1,000,000
• B. 500,000
• C. 2,000,000
• D. 750,000

Answer: (A)

The key idea is recognizing the global death toll from road crashes as a large, but commonly cited, figure by WHO. World Health Organization estimates that roughly one million people die each year in road traffic crashes worldwide. This ballpark figure highlights the scale of the problem and why road safety is a major public health priority, with higher impact in certain regions and among vulnerable road users. While newer data sometimes place the toll a bit higher (around 1.3 million), “about one million” is the widely used approximation that best matches the options given. The other numbers are noticeably off from WHO’s established estimate.