TUNIS, July 11 (Xinhua) --Thirty-six people were injured in a accident when a bus skidded off the road Monday evening in the southwestern Tunisian province of Gafsa, authorities said Tuesday.
The bus, traveling from the capital city of Tunis to Tozeur, a southern province, crashed at a site about 90 kilometers from Gafsa, the capital city of Gafsa province, said the regional Director of Civil Protection Adel Labidi.
"Thirty-three passengers have already left the regional hospital in Gafsa while three others remain there for more care given the delicacy of their state of health," said Labidi.
The number of road accidents in 2017 has dropped by 17.42% from 4,001 in 2016 to 3,304, according to the latest report of National Road Safety Observatory (ONSR) in Tunisia.
As for the number of deaths, a slight decrease is of 0.74%, going from 675 to 670, it said.
"It will be necessary to highlight the efforts of the ONSR, in particular a series of awareness campaigns, crowned by the adoption in last April of a regulation prohibiting the non-wearing of the seat belt inside and outside the urban areas," the spokesman of ONSR Oussama Mabrouk told Xinhua.
The month of January 2017 saw 611 accidents, which is the highest in this year, followed by March with 595 accidents. Enditem
