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MR. POON CHI-FAI (in Cantonese) : I I fully agree with what

the Secretary has said a moment ago that there are a

number of factors leading to traffic accidents. But could

the Administration inform this Council whether it has

information to show the causes of the accidents involving

light goods vehicles? In that way, we will be able to

improve the situation because we have a clear idea of the

causes.

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SECRETARY FOR TRANSPORT (in Cantonese) : We do not have a

separating light goods vehicles from other

Usually, accidents are caused by speeding or

We can believe that these

vehicles.

carelessness of pedestrians.

are the most common causes and perhaps we can focus our

attention on these two aspects in our publicity and

education programmes so that motorists will not speed, and

at the same time pedestrians will be more careful.

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