The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2023 will be held on November 19 (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The National Traffic Safety Committee will organise many activities across the country in response to the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims 2023 (November 19).
Accordingly, communication campaigns will be launched on various channels, and a national memorial service for road accident victims will be held in mid-November in Hoa Binh province.
The committee will set up delegations to visit victims’ families in especially difficult circumstances in Lao Cai, Yen Bai, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Hau Giang, Soc Trang and Dak Lak provinces.
Vice Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee Khuat Viet Hung said that the activities are meant to raise the alarm about traffic accidents, enhance the public’s awareness about traffic safety rules, and call for help for traffic accident victims and their families.
To raise awareness among students about traffic order and safety, all general schools will spend a minute in remembrance and read messages commemorating victims of traffic accidents at the weekly flag raising ceremony on November 13.
Universities, colleges, vocational schools, high schools across the country will broadcast traffic safety messages on the school radio system for a week, from November 13 to 19.
The numbers of traffic accidents, fatalities and injuries in the first seven months of 2023 declined from the same period last year, reported the National Traffic Safety Committee.
Chief of the committee’s office Tran Huu Minh said that 5,928 traffic accidents were recorded during the period (from December 15, 2022 to July 14, 2023), killing 3,428 and injuring 4,117 others.
The respective figures fell 659 (10%), 411 (10.71%), and 143 (3.36%) year on year.
Among the accidents, 5,858 happened on roads with 3,379 deaths and 4,104 injured people, down 9.88%, 9.87% and 3.25% from a year earlier, respectively./.
