PHNOM PENH, July 14 -- A total of 941 people were killed and 4,331 others were injured in road accidents in Cambodia in the first half of this year, Preap Chan Vibol, director of the Overland Transport Department of the Ministry of Public Work and Transport, said on Thursday.
The figure showed that the death toll increased by one percent from 931 deaths in the first six months of last year, while the number of the injured people declined 20 percent from 5,418 injuries in the same period of last year.
He added that road accidents occurred due to increasing number of vehicles, good roads, over-speeding, violation of traffic law and alcohol driving.
The death toll of road accidents has become the No.1 killer in Cambodia among those of HIV/AIDS and mine casualties.
In 2010, 1,816 people were killed by road accidents, and 70 percent of the deaths were motorcycle drivers, according to the reports by the ministry.
The country lost 279 million U.S. dollars from road accidents last year.
8 comments:
“In 2010, 1,816 people were killed by road accidents, and 70 percent of the deaths were motorcycle drivers, according to the reports by the ministry.”
=Here is the solution! Ban the fucken motorcycle and that alone will reduce 70% death and serious injury!
If it keeps going like that it can't be good for our nation building.
It way to much for a little ass country like Cambodian, compare it to United States they having less people dead then Cambodian.
Because of the design of the road is not right. there should be 3 lanes on the opposite side and there should be some trees grow between the both side of to and from. No, houses is to be build need the road. the distance should be at least 100 metre away from the main road. unless it is suburbend then there is one lane on each side and should be 40-50km/h...traffic light should be installed in all the main road or crossing etc...it is very important to prevent than cure. If too many died there will be bad name and then it will reduce in tourism...
I think the main reasons are:
1) cars, motocyles, bicycles and animals using the same roads and highway.
2) people do not respect or understand traffic laws. Very easy to get a license there.
3) most don't use seatbelts.
4) drive angry and/or with excessive speed and overload passengers. It's not unusual to see 15-20 people in a truck/suv/car.
5) lack of traffic signs in most highways and intersections.
Simply put! It is a bad road design! Regardless of what the incompetent CPP officials want to say even though they claimed to have good education and good enforcement of traffic law.
This is what I can tell you that the roads are not designed to move traffic but to kill dirt poor Cambodian people! The roads lack many safety features which can be found in advance country such United States! No country on Earth have more cars than United States! I have seen many road designs in United States and it design to do one thing and that is to move traffic without killing a lot of people!
agree w/ 6:25
The traffic is very unorganize. Who ever in charge in the area is not doing the job. The most dangerous points are no speed limited every where and secondly are the drunk drivers. Thirdly people need to train to drive properly and respect the rule and the regulation. The government need to to be tough on the regulation. Just talking and do little is nothing good. Take action.
mreas prov
Hun Sen govt was/is irresponsible
the safety of it own people.
Because he is blind,the rest of his
high and low officials are blind
too.The blind leads the blinds.
The highway patrols have money tea
in their pockets.
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