Rapid development and booming urbanisation in Cambodia have led to a doubling in traffic fatalities in the past five years, to 4.8 deaths per day in 2008, according to an official report highlighting the latest figures.
Among countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Cambodia has one of the highest rates of traffic-related deaths - the second-biggest killer after HIV/AIDS. Most of the people affected appear to be younger, economically active people with farmers and labourers accounting for nearly half of all traffic fatalities.
Cambodia's construction boom has played its part. Some donors, such as the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), have been funding much-needed upgrades of road networks.
But death rates have spiked on upgraded roads - 60 percent of victims were involved in crashes on wider national and provincial motorways, according to the WHO.
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