Over 2,000 people killed in road accidents in Myanmar in 2009
YANGON, March 16 (Xinhua) -- A total of 2,173 people were killed and 14,700 others were injured in 8,461 traffic accidents across Myanmar in the year 2009, local media reported Tuesday.
The death toll and the injured were significantly up from 2008' s 153 and 1,777 respectively, the traffic police office was quoted by the Pyi Myanmar as saying.
2008's car accident cases were registered as 662.
In 2009, Mandalay division is leading with the highest occurrence of accident cases of 1,655, followed by Yangon division with 1,644 cases, Bago division with 1,070 and Sagaing division with 1,008, it said.
Statistics indicate that Myanmar lost 3 percent of gross domestic product annually due to car accidents across the country.
Meanwhile, the Myanmar police authorities are taking measures for reducing traffic accidents by cooperating with regional countries including members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) under the Global Road Safety Partnership program.
According to statistics, the number of motor vehicles operating in the whole of Myanmar reached over 2.02 million as of November last year, up from over 1.99 million correspondingly in the previous year.
Of the total, 1.63 million are motor cycles, while 249,048 are passenger cars, 60,118 are trucks and 19,869 are buses.
Source :http://www.interconnectionworld.com/index/display/wire-news-display/142596880.html
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