HO CHI MINH CITY, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- In the first eight months of 2016, 13,612 traffic accidents happened in Vietnam, killing 5,728 people, severely injuring 3,751, and lightly hurting 8,030, the country's Traffic Police Department said Friday.
The number of traffic accidents, deaths and severe injuries and slight injuries caused by the accidents declined respectively by 6.9 percent, 1.6 percent, 1.9 percent and 14.7 percent from a year earlier.
On average, from January to August, Vietnam witnessed 56 traffic accidents each day, which claimed 23 lives and injured 48 people.
The country reported 22,404 traffic accidents which killed 8,671 people and injured 20,556 others last year.
