PM: individuals responsible for traffic carnage
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has stressed that reducing traffic
accidents and traffic jams is the responsibility of every person.
PM Dung made the statement while delivering a radio message when he visited Radio Voice of Vietnam on Dec. 27.
Traffic
accidents and traffic jams are a pressing social issue, PM Dung said.
“Vietnam has taken measures to ensure traffic safety and minimise
traffic jams and the country has made certain achievements, however,
traffic accidents still happen every day, killing 30 people and injuring
dozens of others a day”.
As the result, the Government has designated 2012 the year for traffic safety, PM Dung said.
In his message, the Prime Minister also emphasised “each person should
be responsible for themselves, for their families, friends and the whole
society and the first thing one can do is to follow traffic
regulations”.
The Prime Minister also requested ministries,
branches and authorities to give direction to the implementation of the
Government’s urgent and long-term measures from the very first days of
the new year, in order to reduce traffic accidents and casualties by
5-10 percent a year as well ease traffic jams in Hanoi and Ho Chi
Minh City .
A ceremony to launch an action plan for Traffic Safety Year 2012 will be held on January 1, 2012./.