[04/September/2010]

SANA'A, Sep.04 (Saba)- About 234 traffic accidents taken place during the last week caused the death of 43 people killed and 327 others wounded ,of whom 200 were diagnosed seriously.

According to a report issued by the Public Traffic Department, those accidents caused marital losses estimated at YR 39.4 million.

Those accidents were distributed to 112 crash accidents, 92 over run, 29 turning over, and a falling accident.

The capital Sana'a was ranked first in terms of number of accidents with 72 traffic accidents, followed by Taiz province with 33 accidents, then Hodeidah province with 31 accidents and Sana'a province with 18 accidents.

While the number of accident in Hajjah province amounted to 16 traffic accidents and in Dhamar provinces six accidents.

The reasons behind those accidents were over speed, negligence in vehicles' maintenance, technical faults, wrong overtaking and other reasons.

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