4 killed, 37 injured in Myanmar highway crashes in May
A total of 30 people were killed and 110 others injured in traffic accidents on the Yangon-Mandalay highway in the first five months of 2022.
YANGON: Four people were killed and 37 others injured in traffic accidents on Myanmar’s Yangon-Mandalay highway in May, state-run media quoted the Nay Pyi Taw Expressway Traffic Police Force as saying on Tuesday.
In May, there were a total of 15 road crashes reported on the busiest highway in Myanmar.
A total of 30 people were killed and 110 others injured in traffic accidents on the Yangon-Mandalay highway in the first five months of 2022.
From January to May this year, there were a total of 72 road accident cases reported on the highway, it said.
The 587-km highway, connecting the country’s commercial city Yangon and the second-largest city of Mandalay, was inaugurated in December 2010.
Human errors such as overspeeding, negligent driving and drowsy driving are mostly blamed for highway accidents in the country.
Last year, over 3,000 people were killed and more than 8,000 people injured in 6,420 traffic accidents across Myanmar, official figures showed.
-Xinhua
