LAS VEGAS (FOX5) -
With nearly 13,000 traffic accidents reported in Las Vegas this year, Metro police are coming together with business and community leaders to help reverse the rising trend.
Metro announced a day-long symposium set for Thursday that will focus on the problems and issues that lead to traffic accidents.
Metro statistics showed a nearly 5 percent increase in the total of accidents in 2012 from the year before.
Currently, 65 people have died in traffic collisions in 2012, which is already an 80.6 percent increase from last year (36 in 2011).
The symposium scheduled from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Metro Headquarters will examine issues in accidents and present several key questions to participants.
Break-out groups will be formed to develop solutions to the challenges within those questions, Metro said.
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