{"id":83608,"date":"2016-12-21T08:47:16","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T08:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/923-deaths-in-road-accidents-in-9-months\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T08:47:16","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T08:47:16","slug":"923-deaths-in-road-accidents-in-9-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/923-deaths-in-road-accidents-in-9-months\/","title":{"rendered":"923 deaths in road accidents in 9 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"388\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/12 December\/21 Dec\/Untitled-1-305.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Authorities at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) have said that at least 1858 traffic incidents have occurred on the highways across the country in the past nine months.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Latif Khairkhwa, head of accident department at directorate of traffic at the MoI has said these accidents have claimed 923 lives and has left 2219 persons injured.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Poor quality of roads, over loaded vehicles and reckless driving are the main cause of accidents&rdquo;. Khairkhwa said.<\/p>\n<p>A number of passengers complain that damaged roads, lack of traffic signs and reckless driving by often addicted drivers have put the lives of passengers at risk.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a passenger bus collided with an oil truck on Herat-Farah highway claiming 14 lives. Another 4 people died and 36 got injured in a similar accident a day earlier in Nimroz.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Authorities at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) have said that at least 1858 traffic incidents have occurred on the highways across the country in the past nine months. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}