Accidents on the rise

Firemen extricating Ben Gimen's body at the scene of the accident in Musi.

MIRI: Bigger roads, more vehicles, more people equals more road deaths – that is how it is on the state and federal roads in northern Sarawak today as latest statistics points to a high surge in the number of people killed in road accidents in the area.

For the first six months of this year, 30 people had died in fatal road accidents in Miri Division, as compared with 18 during the same period last year.