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MR. POON CHI-FAI (in Cantonese) : I I fully agree with what
the Secretary has said a moment ago that there are a
number of factors leading to traffic accidents. But could
the Administration inform this Council whether it has
information to show the causes of the accidents involving
light goods vehicles? In that way, we will be able to
improve the situation because we have a clear idea of the
causes.
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SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT (in Cantonese) : We do not have a
separating light goods vehicles from other
Usually, accidents are caused by speeding or
We can believe that these
vehicles.
carelessness of pedestrians.
are the most common causes and perhaps we can focus our
attention on these two aspects in our publicity and
education programmes so that motorists will not speed, and
at the same time pedestrians will be more careful.