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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EGhewg5" data-source="post: 23710227" data-attributes="member: 567887"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px">A road accident every 10 minutes!</span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">A road accident occurs every 10 minutes in Sri Lanka and the resultant losses of lives is six or seven, a study has revealed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Only 30 out of these accidents get reported, says director general of the non-communicable diseases unit Thilak Siriwardena.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>150 admitted to hospital a day</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Also, more than 150 people are admitted to hospital following road accidents on a daily basis, he says.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Most of these accidents are blamed on three-wheelers and motorcycles.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">According to the National Council on Road Safety, 18,980 road accidents occurred from 01 January 2017 to 30 June 2017.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Of them, 1,473 were fatal, causing 1,547 deaths.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">These accidents also left 4,062 with serious injuries and 15,340 with minor injuries, says the council.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong>20,000 deaths a year</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Meanwhile, statistics issued by the office of the police media spokesman for fatal road accidents between 2012 and 2016 indicates that around 20,000 lives were lost each year.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Traffic police director Indika Hapugoda says 2013 experienced a comparatively lesser number of road mishaps, attributing it to a decline in the registration in motor vehicles and the non-existence of an expressway network.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p></p><p>Source: <a href="https://srilankamirror.com/news/6874-a-road-accident-every-10-minutes" target="_blank">https://srilankamirror.com/news/6874-a-road-accident-every-10-minutes</a></p></blockquote><p></p>

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