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HANOI, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- More than 17,600 traffic accidents occurred in Vietnam in 2019, killing over 7,600 people, severely injuring some 13,600 people and lightly hurting about 8,500 others, according to the General Statistics Office on Friday.
The numbers of traffic accidents, deaths, severe injuries and slight injuries caused by the accidents dropped, respectively, by 5.1 percent, 7.1 percent, 6.4 percent and 8.2 percent against the same period last year.
On average, Vietnam saw 48 traffic accidents each day which claimed 21 lives and injured 37 people in 2019.
