Traffic Carnage Continues and Police are Still ‘Disappointing’ in Sihanoukville

[geovalin]

Khmer Times/Jack Laurenson

SIHANOUKVILLE (Khmer Times) – Cambodia is fighting a war against its own roads, and it appears to be losing – especially on the coast.

Social media feeds are frequently crowded with pictures of crumpled cars and bloodied, broken bodies. They are not photos from war-zones, but are uploaded by local residents and Khmer journalists living here on Cambodia’s coast. Seeing graphic images of carnage and tragedy on coastal roads here – smashed motorcycles, overturned trucks and bloodied or dead road-users – is almost an everyday occurrence for a province which records many of Cambodia’s road fatalities.

In the past month alone, the highways and roads of Preah Sihanouk have regularly been spattered with the blood of unfortunate motorists and pedestrians, as well as the shattered glass and warped metal of their wrecked vehicles.

source: http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15810/traffic-carnage-continues/

source: http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15809/police-are-still----disappointing---/

[Borzandy]

Cambodia like Thailand, like China.

[craigt3365]

I'm amazed when I read on here about people taking their scooters over to tour around. A friend went with a group last year and one of them never made it back.

[Tomtomtom69]

I'm amazed when I read on here about people taking their scooters over to tour around. A friend went with a group last year and one of them never made it back.

I agree. Going by car is a different story though. You are obviously much safer driving a car than a scooter.

[dksharron]

...and by bus, even more so.