Deputy Chairman of the National Committee for Traffic Safety NguyenHoang Hiep has highlighted the tightened management of transportationservices and vehicles’ capacity as urgent measures to help ease trafficaccidents.
He said over 90 percent of serious trafficaccidents are related to drivers’ reckless regard for observing law andregulations on traffic safety, considering the loose management overtransportation businesses the cause root of the problem.
Therefore, “tightening the management of transportation services andvehicles’ capacity” will become the theme of the 2014 national trafficsafety year, Hiep added.
Accordingly, the committee willfocus on amending and supplementing legal documents to strictly put theoperations of transportation businesses in compliance with regulations.
It will also devise new solutions and increase inspection,he said, adding that an itinerary supervision centre will be put intoservice in early 2014, aiming to make transportation firms take onresponsibilities for traffic accidents, not drivers themselves.
Hiep also laid stress on the need to enhance the role andresponsibility of State agencies in communications campaigns to promotethe safe participation of road users.
In 2013, the number oftraffic accidents in Vietnam dropped by 5.3 percent, fatalities, downby 0.58 percent and injuries, down by 9.36 percent.
This isthe second consecutive year the number of traffic fatalities standsbelow 10,000 since 2001. However, the rate has still fallen short of theNational Assembly’s target of 5 percent-10 percent.-VNA
He said over 90 percent of serious trafficaccidents are related to drivers’ reckless regard for observing law andregulations on traffic safety, considering the loose management overtransportation businesses the cause root of the problem.
Therefore, “tightening the management of transportation services andvehicles’ capacity” will become the theme of the 2014 national trafficsafety year, Hiep added.
Accordingly, the committee willfocus on amending and supplementing legal documents to strictly put theoperations of transportation businesses in compliance with regulations.
It will also devise new solutions and increase inspection,he said, adding that an itinerary supervision centre will be put intoservice in early 2014, aiming to make transportation firms take onresponsibilities for traffic accidents, not drivers themselves.
Hiep also laid stress on the need to enhance the role andresponsibility of State agencies in communications campaigns to promotethe safe participation of road users.
In 2013, the number oftraffic accidents in Vietnam dropped by 5.3 percent, fatalities, downby 0.58 percent and injuries, down by 9.36 percent.
This isthe second consecutive year the number of traffic fatalities standsbelow 10,000 since 2001. However, the rate has still fallen short of theNational Assembly’s target of 5 percent-10 percent.-VNA
