Strict traffic law enforcements see drop in deaths and injuries

[geovalin]

The two-year implementation of tough and aggressive traffic law enforcement has seen results with a significant drop in road accident deaths and injuries, said Interior Minister Sar Kheng on his Facebook page yesterday. He said the enforcement measures that were carried out in 2020 and last year have seen a decline in death and injury cases, thanks to traffic law enforcement and road users’ awareness of traffic laws.

 

In 2019, Kheng said there were 3,615 road accident cases that caused the death of almost 2,000 people while more than 6,000 suffered minor and major injuries. Taking into account the high cases of deaths and injuries, he added the Road Traffic law was amended with inputs given by members of the public and experts via the media or directly over a period of six months to a year.

 

“For many years, the National Road Safety Committee has been educating and disseminating the traffic laws to the people, in an effort to reduce road accidents but it was to no avail as road users still continued violating the traffic laws,” said Kheng. It was then, he added the traffic law enforcers decided to go hard on those who violated the traffic rules and regulations and this resulted in some 800 lives saved and only about 3,000 people sustaining injuries.

 

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[ThailandRyan]

Wish they would do this in Thailand.  Kudos to Cambodia for getting it done.