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"When the vehicle ahead passes the marker, say the phrase 'a thousand and one, a thousand and two'. If you pass the marker before finished saying the phrase, then you are driving too close and cannot stop safely in case of a hazard."
Miss Ying expressed hope that this scheme could increase drivers' awareness towards safe driving distance and lead to a reduction of road traffic accidents.
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She noted that similar experiments were conducted in the United Kingdom and
"In the UK ones, an achievement of 56 per cent in accident reduction and improved driving behaviour were realised. We surely hope similar results can be achieved in Hong Kong to cut down our accident rates and casualties", she said,
Miss Ying pointed out that driving too close to a vehicle in front had been a major contributory factor to traffic accidents in the territory, in particular on expressways.
Jointly presenting the trial scheme, Chief Inspector of Police of Accident Investigation Unit, Traffic New Territories North, Ngan Cheuk-leung, said that the head to tail (H/T) accidents on Tolo Highway in the past three years were 332, representing a 48 per cent of the total accidents of 695 occurred on the highway.
During the same period, a total of 640 casualties caused by H/T accidents was recorded on the highway with seven persons being killed.
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121 VMs depart on orderly repatriation flight
A group of 121 Vietnamese migrants (VMs) returned by air to Hanoi, Vietnam today (Monday) on the 46th flight under the Orderly Repatriation Programme (ORP).
All but three of the returnees, comprising 60 men, 26 women, 16 boys and 19 girls, are from North Vietnam.
The majority of them arrived in Hong Kong in 1989, with the remaining in 1988, 1990 and 1991.
The group brought to 4,127 the total number repatriated on ORP flights since November 1991.
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