Antara News, Sunday, June 6, 2010 03:11 WIB
Bandung, W Java (ANTARA News) - West Java Province lost 4,098 people in traffic accidents last year. Eighty percent of them were in the productive ages, West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan said.
"The West Java police reported that last year`s traffic accident death toll reached 4,098 people. Eighty percent of them were in productive ages," he said here Saturday.
Besides killing 4,098 people, the 2009 traffic accidents had also caused at least 3,000 others to get injured, he said.
Ironically, 75 percent of the traffic accident victims were motorists while the remaining 25 percent were car drivers, he said.
Governor Ahmad Heryawan said traffic accidents remained the biggest causes of death in the world.
More than 1.2 million people were killed on roads every year. Ninety percent happened in developing countries, he said.
In reducing the traffic accident cases in West Java, Heryawan asked the police to intensify the campaigns of their "police as children`s friend" program.
Through the program, children could have been educated about safe traffic from their early ages, he said.
Governor Ahmad Heryawan said creating highly-disciplined traffic users in his province and Indonesia was not only the government`s responsibility but also that of other stakeholders.
The children, who received the police`s socialization program, were expected to have safe traffic behavior when they became aduts, he said.
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