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12月2日被定为全国交通安全日

Source: CRI    2012-12-03  我要投稿   论坛   Favorite  

One-two-two is the traffic accident emergency number. That's why December 2 has been set as the National Traffic Safety Day. The theme of this year's National Traffic Safety Day is "Obeying the traffic signal, safer roads."

According to statistics, by the end of October this year, China had more than 238 million motor vehicles and 256 auto vehicle license holders.

With the rapid growth of motor vehicles and drivers, traffic accidents have become a big threat to people's lives.

Figures from the Ministry of Public Security show that traffic accidents claim the lives of about 70 thousand every year. The accidents injure about 300 thousand people every year. The direct economic loss is estimated at 1 billion yuan (or about 160.45 million US dollars).

More than 80 percent of the accidents are caused by not obeying tra