Three Cambodian bus companies receive official warning.

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Re: Three Cambodian bus companies receive official warning.

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And the winner is... Rith Mony... by an arm and a leg, at least.
Posted the whole article because it is worth the read on Rith Mony, especially if you are wondering which bus company to take next trip.

Bus crash injures four
24 March 2017
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A bus belonging to the Rith Mony Transport company rammed into several small roadside restaurants and vehicles along National Road 5 in Battambang province’s Thmor Kaul district on Wednesday, leaving four people injured and pushing several others into a nearby river.

Deputy district police chief Hieng Ra Sing said some of the injuries sustained were serious, but did not provide details of how many victims were in serious condition.
No fatalities were reported.

“The accident happened about 3:10pm. Four people were seriously and slightly injured. Four motorbikes and one Toyota Camry car were also damaged and several people were also pushed into the nearby river,” he said.

“The bus crashed and flattened 16 small food shops, leaving wreckage all over the scene,” he added. After the accident, the bus driver immediately fled and the victims were sent to the provincial hospital.

Police could not confirm the cause of the accident, but theorized it was due to driver neglect.
According to the police report, the bus was traveling from Banteay Meanchey province to Phnom Penh when the driver likely fell asleep and swerved off the road.

Deputy provincial police chief Cheth Vanny said that no representatives from the Rith Mony company had come forward as of yesterday.

Rith Mony Transport also did not respond to requests for comment.

In January, Rith Mony Transport was named in a letter by the government’s National Road Safety Committee as being one of the bus companies involved in the highest number of traffic accidents in 2016.
The letter warned errant companies to improve their operations or risk suspension.

This came after the Ministry of Public Works and Transport issued a similar warning in September and named Rith Mony Transport along with two other bus companies for their “irresponsible” operations.

The ministry had previously issued the same warning in 2013, demanding the company cut down on traffic accidents.

The committee’s secretary-general Min Meanvy, who is also a secretary of state at the Transport Ministry, in January attributed most bus crashes to negligent drivers and poor monitoring by the companies.
Ms. Meanvy also said that 129 of the 665 bus drivers, or 19 percent of them, tested positive for drugs.

Rith Mony Transport administrative director Sam Vichet in January also acknowledged the company’s checkered past, but rationalized it by saying that the number of incidents were no more than other local bus companies.

He said that a 2015 incident – when the company’s bus caught fire and killed most of its passengers – was the only major incident Rith Mony Transport had experienced, with nothing similar happening since.

Last August, one man died and five others were injured, three critically, when a Rith Mony bus burst into flames in Battambang City.
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