The scene of a traffic accident (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – As many as 14,346 traffic accidents occurred nationwidefrom December 16, 2016 to September 15, 2017, leaving 6,113 dead and 11,785injured.
The figures represented decreasesof 6.24 percent, 5.11 percent and 13.35 percent, respectively, compared withthe same period last year, according to statistics released by the NationalCommittee for Traffic Safety at a teleconference on October 21.
However, 15 out of the country’s63 provinces and cities still saw an increase of over 10 percent in the numberof fatalities in traffic accidents.
Deputy Prime Minister Truong HoaBinh, who is Chairman of the National Committee for Traffic Safety, asked formore efforts from ministries, agencies and localities to achieve the target ofreducing the number of traffic accidents by 5-10 percent in 2017 from theprevious year.
Binh requested the 15 said-abovelocalities to take more drastic measures to ensure local traffic safety andorder.
He pointed out weak statemanagement and law enforcement, especially in monitoring vehicles’ loadingcapacity and contracted passenger cars, in several places.
Therefore, the Deputy PMrequested localities to tighten inspections over vehicles’ loading capacity inorder to soon stop operations of overloaded vehicles, prevent and strictlypunish illegal sand and gravel mining in rivers.
It is essential to intensify theapplication of high technologies in order to effectively detect and solvetraffic safety and order violations, Binh suggested.
He also asked the Ministry ofPublic Security to take measures to ensure safety of the APEC Economic Leaders’Week slated for November in the central city of Da Nang.-VNA
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