Traffic accidents kill 134 in a week
(VOV) - The country reported 251 traffic accidents over the past week, resulting in 134 deaths and 141 injuries, according to the Railway and Road Police Department.
Of the total, 244 motorized vehicle accidents claimed the most lives (130 deaths and 137 injuries), followed by rail accidents (7 cases with four deaths and four injuries).
This is the second time this year, rail accidents inexplicably spiked.
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Over the week, transport police dealt with roughly 61,000 violation cases, seizing 109 cars and 6,588 motorbikes. They detected 25 smuggling cases, confiscating 4,200 foreign cigarette packets, 42,000 bolts and more than 2,000 kg of aluminium and many other goods.
Traffic order and security measures continue to be taken to contain traffic accidents on highways and intensify supervision and monitoring to handle violations.