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Road traffic injuries main cause of death: WHO
The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram
|May 13, 2025
ROAD traffic injuries are the leading cause of death among young people aged 5 to 29, and continue to be a pressing public health concern in the South-East Asian Region, said the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Monday.
On the eighth UN Global Road Safety Week marked biennially, starting on the third Monday of May, the WHO said in 2021 alone, the WHO South-East Asia Region, which includes India, accounted for more than 3,30,000 deaths from road crashes, representing 28% of the global total.
This story is from the May 13, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Thiruvananthapuram.
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