BEIRUT, Nov. 17 (Xinhua) -- At least 18 people were injured on Sunday in a car accident in Byblos, Mount Lebanon, requiring the civil defense teams to use hydraulic machinery to save wounded people, Al Jadeed local TV channel reported.
The injured people were transferred to hospitals in the area.
According to police data compiled by YASA International, a road safety organization, over 5,000 traffic accidents in 2018 claimed lives of some 450 people in Lebanon.
"The main reason behind this increased number of car accidents in Lebanon is the absence of political will to organize and regulate this sector," a source at the Lebanese International Road Safety Academy (LIRSA) previously told Xinhua.
The source added that road accidents have increased because the government has never adopted a national road safety strategy.
