Saturday, April 3, 2010

Traffic Deaths Doubled in Five Years: Officials

(Photo: DAP news)
By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
02 April 2010

Cambodia’s economy lost nearly $250 million to traffic accidents in 2009, officials said Friday, calling traffic fatalities a second “disaster” behind HIV and AIDs.
More than 1,700 people died in road accidents in 2009, a number twice as high as five years ago, Toch Chan Kosal, secretary of state for the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, told reporters Friday.
The number of total reported accidents last year was 21,519, killing 1,717 people and seriously injuring another 7,022, he said, releasing study figures.
Handicap International said the accidents cost Cambodia $248 million.
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