TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1983
FATAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS FELL FROM 110 TO 78 (A DROP OF 29.1 PER CENT), SERIOUS INJURY TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS FELL FROM 2 025 TC 1 630 (A DECREASE OF 19.5 PER CENT) AND THOSE INVOLVING SLIGHT INJURY DROPPED FROM 2 316 TO 2 250 (A 2.8 PER CENT DROP).
CASUALTIES FOR THE QUARTER AGAINST THE SAME QUARTER IN 1982 ALSO FELL FROM 5 812 TO 5 068, A DECREASE OF 12.8 PER CENT, MR MCCOSH SAID.
THE NUMBER OF PERSONS KILLED HAS FALLEN FROM 112 TO 84, THOSE SERIOUSLY INJURED FROM 2 388 TO 1 958, AND THOSE SLIGHTLY HURT FROM 3 312 TO 3 026.
DECREASES IN THE NUMBER OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS WERE RECORDED IN ALL THREE LAND REGIONS: KOWLOON, FROM 2 243 TO 2 053 (AN 8.5 PER CENT DROP), HONG KONG ISLAND, FROM 1 170 TO 992 (A DECREASE OF 15.2 PER CENT) AND THE NEW TERRITORIES, FROM 1 031 TO 906 (AN 11.9 PER CENT DROP).
TURNING TO VEHICLES INVOLVED IN ACCIDENTS, MR MCCOSH NOTED THAT THE PREDOMINANT CLASSES REMAINED PRIVATE CARS, TAXIS, GOODS VEHICLES, MOTOR CYCLES, AND FRANCHISED PUBLIC BUSES.
PRIVATE CARS WERE INVOLVED IN 38.2 PER CENT OF ALL ACCIDENTS COMPARED WITH 40 PER CENT IN THE CORRESPONDING QUARTER LAST YEAR. FATAL ACCIDENTS CAUSED BY PRIVATE CARS FELL FROM 46 TO 27, SERIOUS INJURY FROM 1 122 TO 879 AND SLIGHT INJURY FROM 1 394 TO 1 267.
DURING THE SAME PERIOD, PRIVATE CAR REGISTRATION FELL BY 2 269 VEHCILES, OR 1.1 PER CENT,
TAXIS WERE INVOLVED IN 18.4 PER CENT OF ALL ACCIDENTS COMPARED WITH 14.8 PER CENT IN THE SAME QUARTER IN 1982. FATAL ACCIDENT INVOLVEMENT INCREASED FROM SIX TO NINE, AND SLIGHT INJURY INVOLVEMENT FROM 566 TO 686. HOWEVER, INVOLVEMENT IN SERIOUS INJURY ACCIDENTS DECREASED FROM 374 TO 349.
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DURING THE SAME PERIOD, TAXI REGISTRATION INCREASED Y 1.1 PER
THE NUMBER OF FATAL AND INJURY ACCIDENTS INVOLVING GOODS VEHICLES INCREASED BY LESS THAN ONE PER CENT. REGISTRATION OF GOODS VEHCILES DURING THE SAME PERIOD ALSO INCREASED BY LESS THAN ONE PER CENT.
THE NUMBER OF FATAL AND INJURY MOTOR CYCLE ACCIDENTS DROPPED FROM 727 TO 488, REPRESENTING A 32.9 PER CENT DECREAST, FATAL ACCIDENTS DROPPED FROM 20 TO 7 (A 65 PER CENT DROP), SERIO.S INJURY FROM 313 TO 197 (A DECREASE OF 37 PER CENT) AND SLIGHT INJURY FROM 394 TO 284 A DECLINE OF 27.9 PER CENT).
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REGISTRATION OF MOTOR CYCLES DECREASED BY LESS THAN ONE PER
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