Every first-time visitor to Mongolia is struck by the road conditions and driving norms. Long-term residents learn to adapt to the dangers of driving, being a passenger in a vehicle and navigating the streets as a pedestrian – all equally terrifying endeavours.

The Mongolian Transport Police Department received a total of 965 calls reporting car accidents from 29 July to 1 August. Three people have died and 22 others have been injured in just three days in Mongolia; six of them were children.

According to one source, five children were hit by cars when walking and one when cycling. It appears that two of five were walking with their parents when they were struck and three of them were crossing the road.

When looking at data provided by the World Health Organization, Mongolia comes out as one of the top 25 countries where more people die on the roads than in hospital beds from cancer, heart disease or  strokes. Mongolia ranked 12th, solely on the basis of road crash fatality rates with 31 deaths per 100,000 in the population, the world average being 18.