TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1988
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ACCIDENTS INVOLVING LIGHT GOODS VEHICLES INCREASE
TRAFFIC MR
THE INCREASE IN INVOLVEMENT OF LIGHT GOODS VEHICLES IN ACCIDENTS INDICATES AN AREA WHERE GREATER ENFORCEMENT IS REQUIRED, PEDRO CHING, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF TRAFFIC OF THE POLICE FORCE SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).
MR CHING RELEASING THE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS REPORT FOR LAST YEAR,
LIGHT GOODS VEHICLES SAID THE NUMBER OF TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS INVOLVING (5611) WAS THE HIGHEST AMONG ALL TYPES OF VEHICLES.
OF
PER CENT IN 1987, LIGHT GOODS VEHICLES ACCOUNTED FOR 23.4
OF ACCIDENTS ALL ACCIDENTS AND 28.4 PER CENT
INVOLVING FATALITIES, COMPARED WITH 20.1 PER CENT AND 25.4 PER CENT RESPECTIVELY IN 1986.
ACCIDENTS OF 5.9 PER
FATAL MR CHING POINTED OUT THAT THERE WERE 17 FEWER
DROP 272 COMPARED WITH 289, OR A IN 1987 THAN IN 1986 CENT.
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TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ALSO
THE NUMBER OF INDIVIDUALS WHO DIED IN DECREASED FROM 310 TO 281, DOWN BY 9.4 PER CENT.
CAUSING DEATH AND INJURY HOWEVER, OVERALL TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
THERE WAS (16,037) INCREASED BY 8.8 PER CENT OVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR. ALSO AN 11 PER CENT RISE IN THE NUMBER OF CASUALTIES (21,563).
AND CONFIRMED THAT THESE WERE THE FIRST INCREASES SINCE 1982
TOWARDS THE END OF THE FIGURES WHICH LEVELLED OFF
1986 WERE NOW
RISING AGAIN, MR CHING SAID,
PEDESTRIANS
REMAIN THE
HIGHEST GROUP AT RISK IN FATAL THE TOTAL FATALITIES AS
ACCIDENTS, ACCOUNTING FOR 77.6 PER CENT OF AGAINST 68.7 PER CENT FOR 1986.
MR CHING SAID MOST PEDESTRIANS INVOLVED WERE INJURED WHEN THEY WERE CROSSING THE ROADS.
IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
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