Authority in Da Lat City of the Central Highland Province of Lam Dong presented a certificate of merit to a resident in the city who voluntarily spent VND300 million (US$ 12,686) fixing a road for facilitating people's travel.
A total of 129 traffic accidents occurred across Vietnam during the national holidays from April 29 to May 3, killing 67 people and injuring 90 others, according to the Traffic Police Department.
There were 3,159 traffic accidents nationwide from December 15 – April 14, claiming the lives of 1,895 people and injuring 2,154 others, reported the Office of the National Traffic Safety Committee.
The Ho Chi Minh City Road and Railway Traffic Police Department (PC08) has just informed that the traffic order and safety in the first quarter of the year were maintained stably and the number of traffic accidents was reduced in three criteria.
On the afternoon of May 3, the Traffic Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security informed that during the four-day holidays on occasion April 30 and May 1, more than 100 traffic accidents were reported nationwide, killing 55 people and injuring over 80 others.
The Department of Traffic Police under the Ministry of Public Security on April 15 launched a national traffic safety month in an effort to make travel safer for all.
As many as 11,495 traffic accidents nationwide killed 5,799 people and injured 8,018 others in one year between December 15, 2020 and December 14, 2021, according to the Office of the National Traffic Safety Committee.
Traffic accidents decreased in three criteria year-on-year from September 15 to October 14, said Chief of the Office of the National Traffic Safety Committee Tran Huu Minh.
Traffic accidents dropped across all three criteria during the week-long Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday from February 10-16, according to the Ministry of Public Security’s Traffic Police Department.
The Ministry of Transport has requested state competent agencies to carry out inspections on driving training establishments countrywide and vehicle registration because there have been many traffic accidents especially serious ones lately.
In the Tet holidays ( the Lunar New Year), though 64 road accidents took place in Ho Chi Minh City killing 59 people, the figure dropped dramatically compared to last year, said the Road and Railway Traffic Police Division (PC08) of the HCMC Department of Police yesterday.
A total of 198 traffic accidents occurred nationwide, killing 133 people and injuring 174 others during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays between January 23-29 nationwide.
The total number of fatal accidents, mortality and injured people reduced dramatically after the country’s stringent new drink-driving law has taken effect for two weeks, said Deputy Head of the Department of Traffic under the Ministry of Public Security Major General Le Xuan Duc.
A total of 12,675 traffic accidents occurred nationwide in the nine months to September 14, killing 5,659 people and injured 9,619 others, according to a report of the National Committee for Traffic Safety.
Due to the massive losses caused by road crashes, traffic safety has become a high-priority issue in Ho Chi Minh City. Since the beginning the year, traffic accidents have been rising in recent years especially in suburban districts despite improvements in automobile safety features.
Up to 177 traffic accidents happened across Vietnam in the first six days of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, which began on February 2, killing 112 people and injuring 150 others.
Ho Chi Minh City Road-Railway Traffic Police Division (PC08) yesterday announced to take heed to drunk truck and bus drivers at the launch of the month-long traffic crackdown campaign over trafic law violators to ensure traffic order during Tet Holiday (the Lunar New Year festival)
There were 147 traffic accidents killing 110 people and injured 61 others during four holidays, when people flocked back to their hometowns, according to the country’s National Traffic Safety Committee.
