KATHMANDU: If you are driving between 6 pm to 6 am, better give a second thought. The Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD) has made a startling revelation that most of the fatal road accidents occur between twilight and dawn. Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD) recorded 278 cases of road accidents in the last quarter. The number of vehicles caught up in the mishap during the same period totaled 470. They included two-wheelers. Of the 278 mishaps recorded in the last three months of the current fiscal, the number of accidents occurring between 6 pm to 12 midnight amounted to 104. The second highest toll (90) occurred between noontime to crack of dawn, followed by 84 cases in between 6 am to 12 noon, the report has shown. Vehicle-wise, two-wheelers have met with the record number of accidents with 217 cases during the same period. The number of people who died in the road accidents during the same period totaled 19, including five women. Of the total 354 people injured in the Valley during the period, at least 68 were sustained lifelong disabilities. Driving from 6 pm to 12 midnight is even more risky since the period witnesses to drunken driving, police said. “Driving during light rain in dark streets is hazardous and the most vulnerable are pedestrians,' argued DSP Bikash Shrestha, Valley operation in-charge, MTPD. Shrestha said that traffic police have been intensifying efforts to curb the road accidents prompted by night life in which people get drunk in clubs and bars that are flung open. 'We've succeeded in drastically reducing the number of accidents fuelled by drunken driving,” he said. “The police in recent times have been laying ambushes to drunkard drivers,' he added. The report has cited carelessness, overtaking, high-speed, drunken driving, overload, mechanical failure and hurried commuters and passersby as major causes of road traffic accidents. In its earlier report, the MTPD had listed 15 accidents -prone sites in the Valley. They were Satdobato, Maitighar, Thankot, Kalanki, Babarmahal, Maharajgunj, Min Bhawan, Bhaktapur, Sitapaila, Jawalakhel, Gatthhaghar, Gangabu, Airport, Chabahil/Bouddha and Sukedhara.