The transport ministry is investigating serious traffic accidents involving trucks, buses, taxis and other commercial vehicles in order to draft preventive measures, ministry sources said Saturday.
While probing the details of the accidents, the land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry will also look into the background of each accident, including whether operational management was appropriate, so it can issue fact-finding reports as it does with air and railway accidents, the sources said.
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