Photo taken on June 17, 2019 shows the site of a traffic accident in Hoa Binh province, Vietnam. A steel-carrying truck hit a 40-seater coach in Vietnam's northern Hoa Binh province on Monday, killing three people and injuring 31 others, local media reported. (Xinhua/VNA)
HANOI, June 17 (Xinhua) -- A steel-carrying truck hit a 40-seater coach in Vietnam's northern Hoa Binh province on Monday, killing three people and injuring 31 others, local media reported.
The head-on collision in the early morning in Mai Chau district killed three people in the coach, including the driver, and hurt 31 others, three of whom were seriously injured, Vietnam News Agency reported.
Between January and May, 6,779 traffic accidents occurred in Vietnam, killing 3,128 people, severely injuring 2,024 people and lightly hurting 3,230 others, according to the country's Traffic Police Department.
