Eleven people are reported to have died in 80 traffic accidents recorded during this year’s New Year period.
In a statement to Qfm News Police Spokesperson Charity Munganga-Chanda says in the same accidents sixteen people sustained serious injuries while five suffered slight injuries.
Ms. Chanda has disclosed that the 80 traffic accidents were recorded from 06: 00 hours of the 31st of December, 2014 to 06:00hrs the 2nd of January this year.
She states that the eleven people that lost their lives in these accidents were from Lusaka, Copperbelt, Luapula, Eastern, Western and North-Western Provinces.
The Police spokesperson notes that from the 80 recorded traffic accidents 35 were reported from Lusaka province while the Copperbelt province had 21 accidents with the Southern Province recording 6 accidents.
She says Eastern and Western provinces had 4 each while North-Western recorded 3, Luapula province 2 with the lowest being Northern Province which had 1 accident.
Ms. Chanda says no accident was recorded in Muchinga province.
And Ms. Chanda has observed there has been a decrease in the number of accidents and fatalities reported this year as compared to last year during the same period.
She notes that the number of deaths have reduced to six from the seventeen recorded last year to the eleven that have been recorded this year.
Ms. Chanda says in comparison to this year which has recorded sixteen serious injuries and five slight injuries last year had twenty seven and twenty five respectively.
She says the Police have also taken note that a decrease in the number of damaged vehicles from 90 last year to 50 this year.
Ms. Chanda states this is attributed to intensive Police patrols and adherence to road traffic rules by members of the public.
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Jane Mulenga
January 3, 2015 at 8:51 am
Condolences for the deceased.
But I am just sad that the Kachasu Man was not among the dead.
I have no mercy for that man, because he is a full affiliated member of Boko Haram.
Lets hope he will kick the bucket before 2016.
I have never seen a person whose main interest of being elected is just for the purpose of being buried at Embassy Park.
Denkete
January 3, 2015 at 10:32 am
jane mulenga waba akanyo.
rajidi
January 3, 2015 at 9:11 am
U are a stupid woman Jane Mulenga and may God forgive u!
john kwempa
January 3, 2015 at 10:39 am
Death wishers you will die first as the Bible says Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you, and the statistics are not matching with the block figure its coming to 76 not 80 as claimed at least there is a reduction as compared to the X-mass statistics yaba pamusebo na po pabipa nga Masebo
john kwempa
January 3, 2015 at 10:42 am
My Heart felt condolences to the bereaved families
KAPOWELA WAMU P*U*S*S*Y
January 3, 2015 at 2:34 pm
to bad guys,may your respective souls rest in peace
kennedy hampande
January 3, 2015 at 9:38 pm
Condolences
ben
January 4, 2015 at 7:35 am
too bad