{"id":18404,"date":"2024-02-16T07:10:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=18404"},"modified":"2024-02-16T07:10:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:10:55","slug":"balkh-traffic-incidents-during-a-year-leave-108-dead-160-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2024\/02\/balkh-traffic-incidents-during-a-year-leave-108-dead-160-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Balkh traffic incidents during a year leave 108 dead, 160 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BALKH (SW) &#8211; Officials in Balkh Traffic Management say that 108 people have died and 160 others injured as a result of traffic incidents in this province during the ongoing solar year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abdul Qayum Mubarez, Balkh Traffic Manager, says that this number of people were killed and injured as a result of 122 traffic incidents on Balkh-Jowzjan and Balkh-Samangan highways.<\/p>\n<p>Speeding, lack of awareness and non-observance of traffic rules by drivers, narrowness of roads, and lack of traffic signs on highways are the main factors of traffic incidents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This (solar) year, 122 accidents occurred on Balkh-Jowzjan and Balkh-Samangan highways, as a result of which 108 people died and 160 others were injured,&#8221; said Qayum.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some residents of Balkh expressed concern over the increase in traffic incidents in this province and demanded that drivers observe traffic rules.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah, a resident of Balkh, said: &#8220;If the traffic management does not allow people who do not have a driving license to drive, there will be fewer traffic accidents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An increase in traffic incidents has also been reported in other provinces, as the issue caused concerns among citizens.<\/p>\n<h6>ENDS<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BALKH (SW) &#8211; Officials in Balkh Traffic Management say that 108 people have died and 160 others injured as a result of traffic incidents in this province during the ongoing solar year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":18405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,1,984,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-0_swnen","category-news","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":46,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18406,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18404\/revisions\/18406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}