A total of 390 people died in 60 serious road accidents in China during the just ended 40-day Spring Festival or Lunar New Year peak travel period in China, state media said Friday.
The figure, announced by China's ministry of communications Friday, did not include the number of people killed in accidents the government does not consider serious, according to a Xinhua news agency report.
The Spring Festival travel period began on January 8.
China's dangerous highways clock 15 percent of global auto deaths, although the nation has only two percent of the world's cars, according to Ministry of Public Safety figures.
China recorded 667,507 accidents last year, leaving 104,372 people dead, according to previous state media reports.
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