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HO CHI MINH CITY, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Between January and July, 11,852 traffic accidents occurred in Vietnam, killing 5, 023 people, severely injuring 3,321 people, and lightly hurting 6,965 others, the country's Traffic Police Department said Monday.
The numbers of traffic accidents, deaths and severe injuries and slight injuries caused by the accidents declined, respectively, by 8.2 percent, 2.8 percent, 1.7 percent and 15.7 percent from a year earlier.
On average, in the first seven months of this year, Vietnam each day saw 55 traffic accidents which claimed 24 lives and injured 16 people.
The country reported 22,404 traffic accidents which killed 8,671 people and injured 20,556 others in 2015.
