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Call for efforts to curb road accidents

Staff Reporter

KOLLAM: Minister for Water Resources N.K. Premachandran has said that facts and figures of the road accidents if examined will be more frightening than the tsunami devastation. He was inaugurating a seminar on "road safety and primary trauma management'' organised by Rotary Club of Quilon Lake City here on Monday.

He said that while tsunami claimed the lives of 200 persons in the State, last year road accidents claimed more than 3,000 lives in the State. If there had been a will, most of these accidents could have been avoided, he said. Kollam Superintendent of Police P.V. Gopinath, who addressed the seminar, said that there are ample amount of rules and laws that can help bring down road accidents. But to achieve that the mindset of the people should change.

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