Truck Carrying Garment Workers Crashes in Cambodia, 54 Hurt
AP / ABC News | 11 October 2016
A truck transporting Cambodian
garment workers to their factory flipped over at a curve Tuesday, injuring 54
of them, including seven who are in critical condition, police said.
The driver, who
fled the scene, appeared to have been going too fast and crashed at a bend in
the road in the eastern Svay Rieng province, police Gen. Roth Ron Veasna said.
He said it was raining and the road was slippery. The driver was unhurt while all the passengers were injured.
This is the third such road accident this year involving garment
workers being transported to their factories. Cambodia's clothing and footwear manufacturing industry, the
country's biggest export earner, employs about 700,000 people. In 2015, the
Southeast Asian nation shipped more than $6 billion worth of products to the
United States and Europe.
An accident involving two trucks carrying garment workers in
Kampong Speu province in January left five dead and 65 injured. In May 2015, at
least 18 garment workers were killed and nearly two dozen injured in eastern Cambodia when their van was hit by a speeding
bus.
Oh, let's blame it on the Vietnamese. The driver was a Vietnamese right? Or some Vietnamese car swayed in front of the truck causing the driver to lose control?
ReplyDeleteKeep on blaming on the Vietnamese, your problems will not go away, and others will hate you. You will not receive any help. And you deserve all the bad things happening against you.