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TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1983.
DURING THE QUARTER, FATAL AND INJURY ACCIDENTS INVOLVING FRANCHISED PUBLIC BUSES' DECREASED FROM 457 TO 434 OR A DROP OF FIVE PER CENT.
REFERRING TO STATISTICS ON PERSONS INVOLVED IN ACCIDENTS, MR MCCOSH SAID PEDESTRIANS CONTINUED TO ACCOUNT FOR THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF CASUALTIES -- 1 937 OUT OF THE TOTAL CASUALTY LIST OF 5 068 OR 38.2 PER CENT OF THE TOTAL. THEY ALSO ACCOUNTED FOR THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF FATALITIES, (57 OUT OF A TOTAL 84 OR 67.9 PER CENT).
''ALTHOUGH THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF CASUALTIES HAD DECREASED BY COMPARISON WITH THE SAME QUARTER IN 1982, PERCENTAGES OF THE TOTAL HAVE REMAINED THE SAME FOR THE PEDESTRIAN AND THE FATAL ACCIDENTS,' HE SAID.
THERE HAS BEEN A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN THE NUMBER OF MOTOR CYCLISTS KILLED AND INJURED IN THE FIRST QUARTER COMPARED WITH THE CORRESPONDING PERIOD LAST YEAR, CASUALTIES DROPPING FROM 510 TO 349 AND FATALITIES FROM EIGHT TO FIVE. THE NUMBER OF CYCLISTS KILLED OR INJURED ALSO DROPPED FROM 189 TO 134.
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THE NUMBER OF DRIVERS KILLED INCREASED FROM EIGHT TO 13 WHILE THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS KILLED DROPPED FROM 16 TO SEVEN. PASSENGERS INJURED DROPPED FROM 1 763 TO 1 492.
$500-MILLION TUEN MUN ROAD COMPLETED
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THE $500-MILLION TUEN MUN ROAD, HONG KONG'S LONGEST HIGH-CAPACITY MODERN HIGHWAY, WAS FULLY OPENED TODAY, FOLLOWING THE COMPLETION OF THE FINAL SECTION OF THE ROAD NEAR CHAI WAN KOK, TSUEN WAN.
THE HON SIR SZE-YUEN CHUNG, SENIOR UNOFFICIAL MEMBER OF THE EXECUTIVE COUNCIL, WHO OFFICIATED AT THE OPENING CEREMONY, SAID THAT TECHNICALLY SPEAKING THE ROAD, EVEN WHEN ONLY ONE CARRIAGEWAY WAS OPENED TO TWO-WAY TRAFFIC, WAS WELL DESIGNED AND SHOULD BE ONE OF THE SAFEST ROADS IN THE TERRITORY.
UNFORTUNATELY, HE SAID, DUE TO POOR DRIVING THERE WERE SEVERAL DISTRESSING HEAD-ON ́ COLLISIONS WHICH ATTRACTED MUCH ADVERSE PUBLICITY.
+FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS INCREASING NUMBERS OF SECTIONS OF THE SEPARATED DUAL-CARRIAGEWAY HAVE BEEN PUT INTO OPERATION AND THE SEVERITY OF ROAD ACCIDENTS HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED, HE SAID.
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