A coach wreckage was retrieved out of water on Monday after it plunged into a ravine in central China''s Hubei Province, leaving at least 16 people dead and another 19 injured, China''s state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. No more casualties were found inside the wreckage when it was lifted out of water, the report said. The coach, with 35 people on board, plunged into a river dozens of meters below a highway on Saturday. According to the GPS system loaded on the coach, the speed of the coach was 40 km per hour before it was found disappeared from the positioning system. Some 14 people were killed at the scene and two died later in hospital. Further investigation is under way. China''s roads are among the most dangerous in the world, due to lax driving habits, overloaded vehicles and bad road conditions. Nearly 70,000 people died in traffic accidents in 2009, or about 190 fatalities per day, according to police statistics
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