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Road accidents claim 1,576 lives in Cambodia in 11 months, down 14 pct

Xinhua, December 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

The number of road fatalities in Cambodia had declined to 1,576 people in the first eleven months of 2016, down 14 percent over the same period last year, a senior police official said Friday.

Besides death toll, the accidents had injured 5,962 others, also down 9 percent, Lieutenant General Him Yan, deputy chief of the National Police, said during a seminar on the enforcement of Traffic Law here.

He said some 3,338 cases of road crashes were reported during the January-November period this year, down 12 percent compared to the same period last year.

"The main causes of the accidents were speed driving, alcohol driving, neglect driving and traffic law violation," he said.

Road crashes are a leading cause of death in the Southeast Asian country. The government estimated that road accidents cost the nation more than 300 million U.S. dollars a year. Enditem