SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1983
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HOLIDAY PARKING CHARGES
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THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT REMINDED MOTORISTS THAT PARKING CHARGES AT ABOUT 350 METERED SPACES IN WAN CHAI, CAUSEWAY BAY AND HAPPY VALLEY WILL BE EXTENDED TO SUNDAYS AND PUBLIC HOLIDAYS FROM TOMORROW (JUNE 26).
THE CHARGES WILL BE THE SAME AS THOSE ON WEEKDAYS BUT THE OPERATING HOURS WILL BE FROM 10 AM TO 10 PM.
THESE PARKING METERS, WHICH HAVE POSTS PAINTED VIOLET AT THE TOP, WILL BE ON LOCKHART ROAD, JAFFE ROAD, GLOUCESTER ROAD, TUNG LO WAN ROAD, SING WOO ROAD, YUK SAU STREET, YUEN YUEN STREET, MIN FAT STREET AND VICTORIA CAR PARK.
KWUN TONG ACCIDENT UPWARD TREND ARRESTED' *****
THE UPWARD TREND OF ROAD CASUALTIES IN KWUN TONG APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN ARRESTED, THE DISTRICT POLICE COMMANDER, KWUN TONG, MR BRIAN WIGLEY SAID THIS (SATURDAY) AFTERNOON.
SPEAKING AT THE OPEN ING CEREMONY OF THE KWUN TONG DISTRICT ROAD SAFETY CAMPAIGN AT THE MAIN SQUARE OF TELFORD GARDENS, MR WIGLEY REVEALED THAT IN THE FIRST FIVE MONTHS OF THIS YEAR, 10 PEOPLE DIED AND 121 WERE SERIOUSLY INJURED IN 540 TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ON THE ROADS OF KWUN TONG.
THIS COMPARES WITH 28 DEATHS AND 414 SERIOUS INJURIES IN THE DISTRICT IN 1981 AND 32 FATALITIES AND 406 SERIOUS INJURIES LAST YEAR.
''WHILST THIS DOWNWARD TREND IS ENCOURAGING, IT WOULD BE BOTH DANGEROUS AND WRONG TO BE COMPLACENT FOR I'M SURE THAT WE WOULD ALL AGREE THAT THE CASUALTY FIGURES ARE STILL TOO HIGH, ' MR WIGLEY POINTED OUT.
MR WIGLEY ADDED THAT IT WAS REASSURING TO NOTE THAT THE SAFETY CAMPAIGN WILL BE DIRECTED AT THOSE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY CONSIDERED MOST VULNERABLE TO TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS.
THIS IS BECAUSE DESPITE IMPROVED ROAD SAFETY EDUCATION, YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER 20 YEARS OLD STILL SUFFER WITH 15 KILLED AND 450 SERIOUSLY INJURED THROUGHTOUT HONG KONG IN THE FIRST THREE MONTHS OF 1993.
́ ́AS WOULD BE EXPECTED THE MAJORITY OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS INVOLVI THOSE TWO CATEGORIES OF CITIZENS AGED BETWEEN 20 AND 20 AND BETWEEN 30 AND 60 WHO ACCOUNTED FOR 35 FATAL AND 1 200 SERIOUS ACCIDENTS IN HONG KONG DURING THE SAME PERIOD,'' HE POINTED OUT.
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