Traffic accidents claim 6,125 lives in nine months

The figures represented decreases of 6.81 percent, 4.89 percent and 12.52 percent, respectively, compared with the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Public Security’s Office and the Vietnam Marine Administration.

Road accidents accounted for 98.57 percent of the total, killing 5,979 people and wounding 11,737 others.

Notable, the number of sea accidents rose by 14.29 percent and the number of fatalities surged by 300 percent.

The traffic police reported that they cracked down on 3.26 million traffic violations across the country in the period, collecting fines of over VND2 trillion (US$88 million) and temporarily holding 29,679 cars and 441,800 motorbikes.