Road traffic accident in November 2008

Every day, more that 4 persons die and more than 70 are injured or disable for life.
November is a month which hundred thousand people travel from provinces to Phnom Penh for celebrate the Water Festival. According to the Road Traffic Accident Victim and Information System showed that the number of fatality dramatically increase during the nation holiday.

As the result of road traffic accident in November 2008 :

- 2041 casualties were reported that there are 120 persons died and 540 were severely injured;
- 78% of casualties were male and 38% of them aged between 15 - 24 years old;
- 58% of fatalities ere drivers and 15% were pedestrians;
- 78% of casualties were males and 38% of them aged between 15 and 24 years old;
- 96% of casualties cause by Human error;
- 52% of casualties cause by Speeding and it is the main cause of road traffic accident;
- 75% of road traffic accident involved with motor riders


In Phnom Penh,
- 547 casualties were reported, corresponding to 18% decrease compared to November 2007 and 1% increase compared to the previous month. Among them 31 died.


Water Festival

- The average daily numbers of casualties in the month were double during the water festival period (11th, 12th and 13th of November) with a peak of 137 casualties on the 12th.

- A total of 344 casualties were reported during these 3 days in 24 provinces. 11 of them died and 84 were severely injured.

- Highest number of casualties was observed in Phnom Penh (total of 94 and 5 of them died). More than 50% of them were injured between 17:00 to 22:00 pm.

In Kandal
- 68 casualties were reported. Almost 40% of them were injured between 16:00 to 17:00 pm.


Asian Highways

- More than 75% of fatalities in the country were involved in accidents along the Asian Highways.

- Significant increases of fatalities were reported on the national road 1 & 4 (double increases) and national road 5 (38%) compare to the previous month.

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