Road fatalities in Cambodia rise to 1901 in 2013

The number of road fatalities in Cambodia has risen to 1,901 people last year, up 0.3 percent from the 1,894 deaths in a year earlier, the report of the Interior Ministry's Public Order Department said Wednesday. Some 4,300 road accidents happened last year, down 2 percent year-on-year, the report said. Besides the deaths, the accidents injured more than 7,000 people last year. Preap Chan Vibol, director of the Transport Department at the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, said nearly 50 percent of the accidents were caused by over-the-speed limit driving, 13 percent by alcohol driving, and the rest by neglect driving and law violation. He told Xinhua on Wednesday that about 70 percent of the accidents were involved with motorcycles The death toll of road accidents is still the No. 1 killer in Cambodia. According to the ministry's report, the country lost about 300 million U.S. dollars a year due to the accidents