Women occupy 70% of HCMC traffic rule violation number This file photo shows a traffic police officer handling a violation case on Vo Thi Sau Street, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City. Tuoi Tre Over two-thirds of the people who broke traffic rules in Ho Chi Minh City last year were women, but most of the dead in traffic accidents were members of the opposite sex, the municipal Traffic Safety Committee announced Wednesday. The committee released the statistics at a conference in the city to review its performance in 2013 and discuss new tasks for this year. Last year city police handled more than 700,000 violators of road and railway traffic rules, of whom nearly 500,000 (71 percent) were women, according to the statistics. Men accounted for 87.3 percent of the total 764 dead victims in traffic accidents. More than half of these 764 victims were immigrants, said Nguyen Ngoc Tuong, deputy head of the committee. The city’s population now tops nine million, of which more than one million people hail from other provinces, Tuong added. Most victims aged 19-24 Along with the 764 deaths, almost 4,600 people were injured in a total of 5,073 traffic accidents that occurred in the city last year, the committee reported. The number of traffic accidents in 2013 decreased by 26.3 percent compared to a year ago. The dead and injured declined by 6.3 percent and 29.2 percent, respectively, in the same manner. Most of the traffic accident victims were aged 19-24 and the majority of the crashes happened from 7:00 pm to 12:00 am every day.  Last year 19,300 more cars and about 300,000 more motorbikes were registered in the city, taking the total number of cars and motorbikes to 487,600 and 5.9 million by year end, the committee said. Tuoitrenews