AT least 11 people died in traffic accidents over the Heroes’ and
Defence Forces’ Day holidays, a marked decline compared to the same
period last year, police said yesterday.
Last year, 24 people had died over the same period.
Police spokesperson, Chief Superintendent Paul Nyathi said the total
number of accidents recorded by yesterday was 86 compared to 237
recorded last year.
“The total number of the people injured from this year’s accidents is
40 compared to a total number of 129 injured people recorded last
year,” he told the Southern Eye yesterday.
Nyathi attributed the decrease to increased visibility of the police
on highways who mounted several roadblocks and blitz awareness
programmes prior to the holidays.
He said traffic police had so far impounded 52 vehicles for various traffic offences and issued out 513 tickets.
Nyathi said the police will issue a full report on traffic incidences today.
The most fatal accident so far has been one where six people died on
Friday morning when a Kukura Kurerwa bus they were travelling in
collided with a two tonne truck along the Bindura-Harare Highway near
Mazowe Citrus Estates.http://www.southerneye.co.zw/2013/08/14/holidays-death-toll-declines/
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