person for every 30 seconds” said Mr. Kong Sovann, representative of Global Road Safety
Partnership (GRSP). Traffic accident is known as the most common problem in Cambodia which
results in a serious injury or death. In Cambodia, there are at least 5 people die from traffic
accident or 15 people suffer from a serious injury per day. In order to prevent traffic accident,
people should learn and understand the cause and the effect it can have on our daily life.
In order to prevent traffic accident you must first understand about the cause of it. There
are several ways which can cause the traffic accident. First and foremost, the causes of traffic …show more content…
Secondly, the cause of the traffic accident is over-speeding. Over-
speeding usually happens at night or at the place where people are not found. For instance, late at
night, around 11 pm when not so many people are found, Peter feel rush and want to go fast so
he drives his motorbike at the speed of 90 km/hour; John, on the other hand, have the same
thought. After becoming careless, Peter and John crash each other and fall on the ground. It’s not
a really good thing because both of them have to stay in a hospital for quite a long time. Most of
all, the other cause of traffic accident is the disobedience of traffic laws. An example of
disobeying traffic laws can be not wearing seat belt or helmet. It sound simple and illogical
which makes people become careless and cause injury or death.
Since you already know about the cause of the traffic accident, you should also
understand about the effect of it on our daily life. The first important effect of traffic accident is
death. You might be wondering why does disobey one little things could cause death? Think
about it, if you're traveling on a road without wearing helmet, first you will feel …show more content…
Injury is the second important effect of traffic jams. In
other words, it's like if you're lucky enough you only get injury instead of death. However, injury
is not completely a good thing; you might feel lucky because you didn't die but injury cause pain
and waste money and time. So, it is better to be caution and stay alert every minute when you are
travelling on a road. Most importantly, the effect of traffic accident cause society disorder and
lose income of economic. Have you ever imagine what the foreigners think when they visit our
country and see these disaster? They will feel uncomfortable and unsafe. Additionally, these
might cause them to criticize and look down on our country. You might think this is not your
problem and the government should be responsible but actually it affects the whole country and
citizen, including you.
Try to think about it carefully, do you want to waste thousands of dollars in the hospital
just because of your one and small mistake? Do you want to waste your time sleeping on bed in
the hospital just because you forgot to wear helmet? Of course not, nobody wants that which is
why we need to learn how to prevent them. There are several ways which are useful to help