Older people should switch to safer modes of transportation, after the number of older people killed in scooter crashes this year jumped nearly 22 percent from last year, the Ministry of Transportation and Communications said on Monday.
In the first three months of the year, there were 93,044 traffic accidents, with 746 people killed and 123,487 injured, Road Traffic Safety Committee Executive Secretary Wu Mu-fu (吳木富) told a monthly briefing in Taipei on traffic safety data.
There were 2,101 fewer accidents, 34 fewer people dead and 3,769 fewer injured than in the same period last year, Wu said.
However, scooter accident fatalities edged