Students learn safe driving skills

A 17-day workshop that ended on January 6 taught safe driving skills and encouraged university students to promote traffic safety among their peers and in the community.
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Students attend a workshop on safe driving skills in HCM City. (Photo courtesy of AIP Foundation)


HCM City (VNA)
- A 17-dayworkshop that ended on January 6 taught safe driving skills and encourageduniversity students to promote traffic safety among their peers and in thecommunity.

The workshop, which attracted 210road-safety ambassadors from seven universities in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi,was part of the Safety Delivered programme organised by Asia Injury Prevention(AIP) Foundation, supported by the UPS Foundation,

Uong Viet Dung, deputy chief of theNational Traffic Safety Committee, said the majority of road users, especiallystudents, lacked motorcycle driving skills, which is a major factor in the highnumber of crashes in Vietnam.

The National Traffic Safety Committeesupports the Safety Delivered programme, which targets university students andempowers them to take on the role of road-safety ambassadors.

Following a series of focus groupdiscussions with university students from Hanoi and HCM City, AIP Foundationdeveloped a motorcycle safety education toolkit in partnership with theNational Traffic Safety Committee and the Ministry of Education and Training.

The training topics focus on riskybehaviors among youth in Vietnam, including not wearing a helmet, not checkingblind spots, speeding, overtaking, and distracted driving.

AIP Foundation will encourage the use ofdiverse media as students design their own road safety initiatives.

Hoang Na Huong, deputy CEO of AIPFoundation, said: “The student ambassadors play a critical role in SafetyDelivered goals by promoting road-safety awareness among their peers. We areexcited to empower these young people to use their experience and insights tomake roads safe in their own communities.” - VNA
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