August 6, 2017
NO fatalities
were reported in connection with three separate traffic accidents on the
Yangon-Mandalay expressway on Sunday morning, according to highway police.
At about 1:15 am
an express bus driven by U Win Tin, 45, from Nay Pyi Taw to Yangon collided
with a tollbooth gate causing damage worth approximately Ks3 million.
At 5 am a car
driven by U Win Myint, 37, from Nay Pyi Taw toward Yangon hit concrete blocks
on the same road near mile post No. 93/5 at 5 am and caused damage valued at
Ks200,000.
Later during the
same day a car driven by U Kin Maung Than, 57, from Nay Pyi Taw toward Yangon
overturned after its tyre burst.
According to the
police records, there were a total of 744 traffic accidents on the
Yangon-Mandalay Highway last year, killing 167 and injuring 1,307.
Phyo Ko Lin
(Nyaung Waing)
Ref;
The Global New Light of Myanmar
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