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TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS CONTINUED TO DROP

THE

OF NUMBER CONTINUED TO DECREASE.

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS AND

IN CASUALTIES

1990

ACCIDENTS CASUALTIES

A TOTAL OF 319 PERSONS WERE KILLED IN TRAFFIC

DECREASE REPRESENTING A

OF 5.6 PER CENT AND SERIOUS DECREASED BY 544 OR 12.4 PER CENT TO 3,926 LAST YEAR.

THIS IS THE SECOND

CONSECUTIVE YEAR

THAT TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

INVOLVING CASUALTIES ARE ON THE DECREASE.

A TOTAL OF

14,989

A DECREASE OF 5.8 PER

ACCIDENTS

CENT WHEN REPRESENTING CASUALTIES FELL BY 5.7 PER CENT TO 20,048.

OCCURRED

COMPARED

IN WITH

1990 1989.

SAID THAT

HOWEVER, THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR TRAFFIC, MR PEDRO CHING THERE IS NO PLACE FOR COMPLACENCY AS PEOPLE WERE KILLED AND INJURED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ALMOST EVERY DAY.

STRESSED

CHING MR

AND THAT CONTINUED EDUCATION

ENFORCEMENT EFFORTS WILL BE REQUIRED TO HOLD THE FIGURES AT THE PRESENT LEVEL.

ACCORDING TO TRAFFIC ACCIDENT STATISTICS, PEDESTRIANS REMAIN PER CENT MOST AT RISK IN FATAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, ACCOUNTING FOR 71.5 OF THE TOTAL FATALITIES.

HAVE

CAUSED

THE MAIN CONTRIBUTORY FACTORS CONSIDERED ΤΟ TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ARE IN SEQUENCE 'PEDESTRIAN NEGLIGENCE', 'DRIVING TOO FAST HAVING REGARD TO CONDITIONS AND FOLLOW TOO CLOSELY'

J

BE TARGETED AT

HIGH

"ROAD SAFETY CAMPAIGNS WILL CONTINUE TO RISK GROUPS SUCH AS PEDESTRAINS, PARTICULARLY THE ELDERLY," HE SAID.

I

ENFORCEMENT "AT THE SAME TIME, AGAINST OFFENCES KNOWN TO CONTRIBUTE ACCIDENTS.

ACTIONS WILL BE STEPPED

ΤΟ SIGNIFICANTLY

UP

INJURY

"EXTRA ATTENTION MUST BE PAID TO POOR DRIVING BEHAVIOUR, VEHICLES BECAUSE ANY PARTICULARLY DRIVERS OF PRIVATE CARS AND GOODS REDUCTION IN THEIR ACCIDENT INVOLVEMENT WILL HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON INJURY FIGURE,' HE SAID.

"

MR CHING SAID THAT

ALTHOUGH A LOT HAS

DECREASE IN THE LIGHT

YET TO BE DONE IN BOTH ACCIDENTS AND OF AN INCREASE OF

PROMOTING ROAD SAFETY, THE OVERALL CASUALTIES IN 1990 WAS HEARTENING IN SEVEN PER CENT OF OVERALL LICENSED VEHICLES WHEN COMPARED WITH 1989.

CARS

IN TRAFFIC HE SAID THAT THE NUMBER OF GOODS VEHICLES INVOLVED

BY ACCIDETNS DROPPED

11.8 PER CENT TO 6,255

PRIVATE WHILE SLIGHTLY INCREASED BY 0.7 PER CENT TO 6,262.

/PROSECUTION AGAINST