PHNOM PENH, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Five local people were killed on Wednesday after their car accidentally swerved to crash a guardrail and overturned, a senior provincial police officer said.
The crash happened on the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway in Kampong Speu province's Samraong Tong district at 6:44 a.m. local time (2344 GMT on Tuesday) when a fast driving car crashed into a guardrail at a curve, said Tab Lon, provincial deputy police chief in charge of road traffic.
"A total of five people, including one man and four women, were pronounced dead at the scene, as two others sustained injuries," he told Xinhua.
"Driving too fast at a curve was blamed for this fatal crash," Tab Lon said.
Road accidents cause many deaths in the Southeast Asian nation. In 2023, some 1,590 people were killed in road accidents, as 4,515 others injured, according to a report by the National Police. ■
