PHNOM PENH, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Road accidents had killed 18 Cambodian people and injured other 111 during the three-day Water Festival holiday from Nov. 9-11, according to the report from the National Police’s Public Order Department on Saturday.
It showed that a total of 43 road accidents happened nationwide during this year’s celebration, 26 percent decline if compared to 58 cases during the last year’s celebration.
The number of the dead was one higher than that of last year of 17, but the injured people have dropped 16 percent to 111 people from 133 injured in the last year’s holiday.
The Water Festival is the largest annual festival in the Southeast Asian nation, around three million Cambodians, especially those from rural areas converged to Phnom Penh to enjoy the regatta, but this year’s boat race festival in Phnom Penh was cancelled due to the flood devastation.
Road accidents caused by three main factors: over-speed driving, reckless, alcohol driving, and overtaking without traffic law respects.
The death toll of road accidents has become the No.1 killer in Cambodia among those of HIV/AIDS and mine casualties.
In 2010, 1,816 people were killed by road accidents, and 70 percent of the deaths were motorcycle drivers, said the report.
The country lost 279 million U.S. dollars from road accidents last year.
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