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Vietnam's traffic accidents decline in Jan-Oct

Xinhua, November 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

Between January and October, 17,249 traffic accidents occurred in Vietnam, killing 7,120 people, severely injuring 4,811 people, and slightly hurting 10,408 others, the country's Traffic Police Department said Tuesday.

The numbers of traffic accidents, deaths and severe injuries and slight injuries caused by the accidents declined, respectively, by 7.6 percent, 1.7 percent, 1.9 percent and 14.3 percent against the same period last year.

On average, in the first 10 months of this year, Vietnam each day saw 57 traffic accidents which claimed 23 lives and injured 50 people.

The country reported 22,404 traffic accidents which killed 8,671 people and injured 20,556 others last year. Enditem