Licensed vehicles rise by 2,470

The number of licensed motor vehicles rose by 2,470 in the second quarter of this year, to now stand at 291,920, the National Statistics Office said yesterday.

Of these, 75.9 per cent were private vehicles while commercial vehicles accounted for 16.3 per cent. New licences issued amounted to 3,422. Private vehicles accounted for 2,170 new licences, or 63.4 per cent of the total.

Ten vehicles were exported, a drop of one over the first quarter. Scrapped vehicles numbered 668 of which 62.7 per cent were Class 1 private cars.

A total of 1,366 vehicles were garaged, meaning that at the end of last month, garaged vehicles reached nearly 67 per cent of the vehicles that are no longer on the road.