New group aims to help cut Myanmar road deaths by half

Road deaths need to be cut by 2000 a year or they will exceed regional targets, a new traffic-safety NGO says.

ASEAN has called on member countries to reduce road deaths by half over the next five years, and the Myanmar Organisation for Road Safety, which was formed on 19 December at the Myanmar Engineers Society in Yangon, intends to try and make that goal.

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