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89711
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Yemen records up 250 traffic accidents 54 people killed in week
SANA'A, Nov. 14
(Saba) - Over 254 traffic accidents have claimed the lives of 54 people and left 127
people
with serious injuries during last week across the country.
According to official statistics, key reasons for the accidents were driver
negligence, high speed, using cell phone, chewing qat, wrong overtaking and
technical faults.
The statistics made it clear that the accidents had led to material losses amounted
over YR 13.6 million.
Since 2000, the accidents caused the death of nearly 22,000 people and injured more
than 159,000 in addition to over 23 billion were material losses of the accidents.
Yemen is currently preparing a National Traffic Safety Strategy aims to ensure a
safe traffic movement and to reduce traffic congestion in several cities of Yemen
in order
to protect the society from traffic accidents' bad effects and deepen awareness of
traffic cultural among society members.
The draft strategy includes the current situation and the traffic problems in
addition to its human and material damages that cause a huge number of deaths and
injuries.
Traffic accidents in Yemen are still killing hundreds of people monthly, and they
left many deaths and injuries and widow women and orphans children.
Several reasons cause these accidents, the concerned authorities mention few of
them and ignore the other ones which reveal that they are directly or indirectly
responsible.
International expert in traffic safety at the Economic and Social Commission for
Western Asia (ESCWA) Bassam Anani said that Yemen is one the most affected
countries by
the traffic accidents.
He pointed out that the numbers of deaths are monitored represent only 70 percent
of the actual numbers because some accidents are not proclaimed.
Moreover, this figure represents the deaths occurred in the scene while the deaths
that occur later on in hospitals are not mentioned.
He said that traffic accidents represent an economic obstacle rather than the bad
humanitarian and social impacts that case a developmental retardation in the
country.
FJ/YA
(Saba) - Over 254 traffic accidents have claimed the lives of 54 people and left 127
people
with serious injuries during last week across the country.
According to official statistics, key reasons for the accidents were driver
negligence, high speed, using cell phone, chewing qat, wrong overtaking and
technical faults.
The statistics made it clear that the accidents had led to material losses amounted
over YR 13.6 million.
Since 2000, the accidents caused the death of nearly 22,000 people and injured more
than 159,000 in addition to over 23 billion were material losses of the accidents.
Yemen is currently preparing a National Traffic Safety Strategy aims to ensure a
safe traffic movement and to reduce traffic congestion in several cities of Yemen
in order
to protect the society from traffic accidents' bad effects and deepen awareness of
traffic cultural among society members.
The draft strategy includes the current situation and the traffic problems in
addition to its human and material damages that cause a huge number of deaths and
injuries.
Traffic accidents in Yemen are still killing hundreds of people monthly, and they
left many deaths and injuries and widow women and orphans children.
Several reasons cause these accidents, the concerned authorities mention few of
them and ignore the other ones which reveal that they are directly or indirectly
responsible.
International expert in traffic safety at the Economic and Social Commission for
Western Asia (ESCWA) Bassam Anani said that Yemen is one the most affected
countries by
the traffic accidents.
He pointed out that the numbers of deaths are monitored represent only 70 percent
of the actual numbers because some accidents are not proclaimed.
Moreover, this figure represents the deaths occurred in the scene while the deaths
that occur later on in hospitals are not mentioned.
He said that traffic accidents represent an economic obstacle rather than the bad
humanitarian and social impacts that case a developmental retardation in the
country.
FJ/YA
