Hanoi (VNA) – The National Traffic Safety Committee will organize a rangeof activities across the country in response to the World Day ofRemembrance for Road Traffic Victims (November 17).
Theactivities are meant to raise the alarm about traffic accident, enhance thepublic’s awareness about traffic safety rules, and call for help for trafficaccident victims and their families.
Theywill be held during one month before the main event, which is a memorialservice for traffic accident victims to be held in Ho Chi Minh City on November17.
Communicationcampaigns will be organized on various channels, and agencies, political-socialorganisations, companies and philanthropists will offer assistance to familiesof traffic accident victims.
TheNational Traffic Safety Committee will set up three delegations to visit victimsreceiving treatment at Viet-Duc Hospital in Hanoi, and victims’ families in especiallydifficult circumstances in Dak Lak, Gia Lai, Ninh Binh and Thanh Hoa provinces.
Thecommittee will also coordinate with Prudential Vietnam and local traffic safetycommittees to present scholarships to children of traffic accident victims inmany provinces.
A total of 12,675 traffic accidents occurrednationwide in the nine months to September 14, killing 5,659 people and injured9,619 others, according to a report of the National Committee for TrafficSafety.
The number of accidents dropped 4.28 percent compared to thesame period last year, while the number of deaths and wounded victims alsodeclined 5.87 percent and 6.78 percent in the period, respectively.
Among the accidents, 12,501 happened on the roads, 121 on therailways, 43 on waterways and 10 at sea./.
