{"id":17769,"date":"2019-04-02T16:24:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T08:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17769"},"modified":"2019-04-02T16:27:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T08:27:06","slug":"highway-accidents-kill-20-injure-over-100-in-myanmar-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=17769","title":{"rendered":"Highway Accidents Kill 20, Injure Over 100 In Myanmar In March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>YANGON, Myanmar, April 2 (NNN-MNA) &#8211; Twenty people were killed with 113 others injured, in traffic accidents on Myanmar&#8217;s Yangon-Mandalay highway last month, according to the figures from the Highway Police Office on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In March alone, there were a total of 51 road accident cases reported on the Myanmar&#8217;s busiest highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highway accidents were mostly caused by human error &#8211; over-speeding, negligent driving and drowsy driving and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The highway police force is urging people to comply with traffic laws, as well as, to cooperate with traffic police in carrying out road safety measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the whole of 2018, there were a total of 473 accidents, leaving 103 deaths and 877 injuries on Yangon-Mandalay highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aiming at enhancing better traffic safety along the highway, the highway authorities have increased the number of road safety police to 16 police stations, providing 24-hour services for travellers since 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 587-km long highway, connecting the country&#8217;s commercial city Yangon and the second largest city of Mandalay, was opened to reduce the travel time between the two cities in Dec, 2010.&#8211; NNN-MNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YANGON, Myanmar, April 2 (NNN-MNA) &#8211; Twenty people were killed with 113 others injured, in traffic accidents on Myanmar&#8217;s Yangon-Mandalay highway last month, according to the figures from the Highway Police Office on Tuesday. In March alone, there were a total of 51 road accident cases reported on the Myanmar&#8217;s busiest highway. The highway accidents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":17773,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}