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A ceremony was held in Hanoi on November 21 to commemorate people who lost their lives in traffic accidents.

An online contest aiming to raise awareness of traffic safety amongst youths was launched on November 15.

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.

The National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC) and Toyota Motor Vietnam Co. Ltd. on October 7 jointly launched the national film festival on traffic safety 2021.

As many as 488 traffic accidents were recorded from August 15 to September 14, claiming 253 lives and injuring 301 people, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee.

As many as 5,182 traffic accidents were reported in five months from December 15, 2020 to May 14, claiming 2,656 lives and injuring 3,788 people, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee.

A total of 14,510 traffic accidents happened across Vietnam this year to December 23, killing 6,700 people and injuring 10,804 others, the National Traffic Safety Committee has revealed.

Nearly 2,000 officials, cadres, youths and public security officers joined the annual 13th Red Sunday – a voluntary blood donation drive, in the central province of Thanh Hoa on December 13.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued a notice calling for traffic safety during upcoming holidays along with strict observation of regulations on the control and prevention of COVID-19.

Asia Injury Prevention (AIP) Foundation, the National Traffic Safety Committee and the Ministry of Education and Training have expanded the Helmets for Kids programme to rural communities in the provinces of Yen Bai, Thai Nguyen and Tuyen Quang.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh on September 27 urged relevant agencies to put an end to actions that violate traffic regulations and pose risks to children and called on people in general and children in particular to strictly follow traffic rules, especially wearing helmets.

A total of 4,876 people were killed and 7,609 others injured in 10,354 traffic accidents nationwide in the first nine months of 2020, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee.

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh chaired a meeting on August 28 of the National Traffic Safety Committee to look into the causes of recent serious traffic accidents and seek solutions to remove accident hotspots in the country’s roads.

There were 1,206 traffic accidents nationwide in July, killing 549 and injuring 911 others, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee.

Eight have been killed while seven others injured in a head-on collision between a coach and a truck in the south central province of Binh Thuan on early July 21.

More than 1.9 million quality helmets will be presented to first grade students in the new school year 2020-2021, aimed at increasing the rate of children wearing standard helmets to 80 percent this year.

The rate of helmet wearing among children reached 70 percent in 63 cities and provinces nationwide during the 2019-2020 school year, according to a survey conducted in January.

The shortage of blood has been exacerbated by the continuing coronavirus epidemic, according to the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT).

The numbers of traffic accidents, traffic-related deaths and injuries in the country all decreased in 2019, as compared to the previous year, heard a national teleconference held on December 28.

The numbers of traffic accidents and related deaths and injured cases plunged in November, helping to drag the 11-month figures down from the same period last year, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee.