Traffic accidents kill over 10 people

SANA'A, Nov. 22 (Saba) - About 11 people were
killed and 75 others were injured due in 33 traffic accidents happened on Saturday
across
the country, Interior Ministry reported on Sunday.
According to official statistics, key reasons for the accidents were driver
negligence, high speed, using cell phone, chewing qat, wrong overtaking and
technical faults.
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.
MB/YA