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Dangerous holiday for drivers
  • | Tuoi Tre | September 06, 2011 12:19 PM

This National Day (September 2) holiday seemed to be particularly dangerous with accidents claiming dozens of lives and injuring hundreds around the country.

Vehicles lined up to go across Cat Lai ferry in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2 on the afternoon of September 4.

Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi received almost 200 victims from September 2 to 4.

In the southern province of Dong Nai, two train crashes on September 3 killed two people and seriously injured another.

In the central Quang Ngai Province, a 73-year-old woman was hit and killed by a train when she chased after a cow on the rail track on September 4.

On September 4, two men were killed following a collision between their motorbike and a car on National Highway 1A in the central province of Binh Dinh.

In Tra Vinh in the Mekong Delta, a truck crashed into four motorbikes September 4, killing one and injuring three others. On the same day a passenger bus overturned in the Bao Loc mountain pass in Lam Dong Province, leaving nine passengers severely injured.

The same day the brakes failed on a tractor-trailer which skidded backwards from the mountain pass and crashed into a motorbike behind, injuring 37-year-old Le Thi My Linh and killing her two children on the spot.
 

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