Stats: Underage driving, riding kills average of two teens daily


PETALING JAYA: Data for the first three months of this year alone shows that at least two teenagers are killed or seriously injured daily while driving cars or riding motorcycles without licences, revealed the Bukit Aman Traffic Investigation and Enforcement Department.

Thirty of those who died in the first three months were under the age of 16, and nine were under the age of 18.

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