Western Samoa
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Fatal Road Accidents In
From Our Own Correspondent TRAFFIC accidents are increasing in Western Samoa.
Just before Easter, two fatal accidents occurred.
In one case a ten-years-old boy was struck by a lorry at Tanugau anono and was killed instantly.
Another Samoan boy, riding at the back of a truck carrying bananas to Apia wharf, was killed when he fell from the truck, the driver be ing unaware of the accident.
A third accident with fatal re sults occurred near the west coast village of Lefatu when a motor-bus, travelling on the main beach road came into collision with a cyclist who had a passenger riding on the carrier of the bicycle. The passenger was killed and the cyclist was in jured.
It is not always the driver of a motor vehicle who is at fault. In many cases pedestrians and cyclists —and particularly children—lack road sense and obstruct the path of motor vehicles.