YEREVAN, AUGUST 7, NOYAN TAPAN. 607 traffic accidents were fixed in Armenia in the first half year of 2006, in the consequence of what 111 people died and 825 people got bodily injury. As Hovhannes Hunanian, the Deputy Chief of the RA Police informed at the August 5 press-conference, compared with the same period of time of the previous year, the number of traffic accidents increased by 76, the number of injured people by 96, and the number of died people reduced by 2. According to the Police Deputy Chief, the main reasons of traffic accidents are exceeding of the fixed speed limit, breaking of the rulls of overtaking, bad state of roads as well as the unprecedented increase of number of cars in Armenia. He mentioned that about 11 thousand transport means were imported the RA only in the current year, the majority of which is high-speed cars of foreign production.

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