Traffic accidents in city A
Traffic accidents have become more serious in city A, and more people are injuried and even killed in the accidents every year. Take the above chart as an example,and only the six months from July 17th to Dec 17th 2002, 600 people were injuried and 3,900 people lost their lives in the traffic accidents. If you take a careful look at the chart and study the figures, you'll find the number of people injuried or killed in the traffic accidents in city A has been increasing all the time. In July , there were only 2,000 people injuried, while in December, the number of the injuried went up to 4,200. There was an increase of 110 percent. As for the people killed in the accidents in July, the figure was only 300, but in December it rose to 1,200 which was four times as bigger as it was in July. So the traffic problem has become a big headache for the city government.
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