The Thai Ministry of Labour has assembled engineers to provide free vehicle checkups and maintenance for the New Year’s holiday in an effort to reduce road accidents.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc highlighted 10 remarkable socio-economic achievements in 2016 and nine outstanding problems while chairing a conference in Hanoi on December 28.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked ministries, provincial and city people’s committees and relevant offices to strengthen traffic safety works during New Year, Tết (Lunar New Year) and the Spring Festival.
The first ASEAN Traffic Police Forum, an initiative of Vietnam, adopted a joint statement at its last meeting in Hanoi on November 22 encouraging the bloc’s policemen to foster coordination.
The first steel overpass in the inner northern city of Hai Phong at the most crowded intersection is expected to be put into operation in January next year.
Some 71 traffic accidents occurred across the country during the three-day holiday from September 2 (National Day) to September 4, killing 33 people and injuring another 59.
A total of 55 traffic accidents occurred during the two-day national holiday on April 30 and May 1, the National Traffic Safety Committee has reported.
The National Traffic Safety Committee has recently issued hotlines for people to lodge complaints about transport issues during the four-day holidays, which start from April 30.
The Hanoi Police Department will increase manpower along favoured routes to ensure traffic order and combat traffic congestion during rush hours, the director of the department said.
More than 2,000 HCM City secondary school and university students paraded on motorbikes and electric bikes on September 19 as part of a Government programme to improve traffic-safety education.
The fatalities from traffic accidents during the celebration of the
holy month of Ramadan and Homecoming festival Idul Fitri which fell
from July 10-22 this year totalled 529, a year on year reduction of 17
percent, according to the Indonesian police.
A communication campaign was launched in Hanoi on July 15 in a bid to
raise public awareness on the ban on selling alcohol to children and
teenagers under the age of 18.
The number of traffic accidents in the first half of 2015 fell 12.85
percent year on year to roughly 11,180 cases, killing almost 4,480
people and injuring nearly 10,150 others, down 4.5 percent and 17.24
percent, respectively.
Vietnam recorded as many as 9,318 road traffic accidents in five months,
from December 16 to May 15, according to the National Traffic Safety
Committee.
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