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The National Committee for Traffic Safety in collaboration with the Hanoi People’s Committee organised a ceremony in Hanoi on January 5 to launch the Year of Traffic Safety 2021 and kicked off a campaign on traffic order and safety during the upcoming Tet holiday season (Lunar New Year). |
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Addressing the ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister and chairman of the committee Truong Hoa Binh requested the National Traffic Safety Committee, ministries, branches and localities take drastic measures to ensure traffic safety this year, with the theme “Improving the efficiency of law enforcement in ensuring traffic order and safety”. From the first days of 2021, all levels from central to local authorities need to implement nine groups of key tasks on traffic safety contained in the approved plan and strive to lower the number of traffic accidents and the number of traffic-related deaths and injuries by 5-10% compared to 2020. He asked them to try to reduce traffic jams in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and other big cities nationwide. In order to ensure the safety of people during Tet holiday, the Deputy Prime Minister requested ministries, branches and local authorities fulfill both of these vital tasks – ensuring traffic order and safety and preventing the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. The Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that the relevant departments should strictly handle violations of traffic order and safety without exception. He suggested media outlets support the traffic police, explaining to citizens about police efforts to prevent traffic accidents which often lead to injury or death. The relevant units have to prepare an effective response plan to prevent COVID-19 infection from occuring at traffic hubs and on public transport. Meanwhile, leaders of each agency or unit should be held accountable if COVID-19 infection occurs in their areas of jurisdiction. According to statistics from the Ministry of Public Security, the number of traffic accidents decreased by 42.71%, the number of deaths fell by 19.01% and injuries by 53.91% in the period from 2016 to 2020. 2020 saw the biggest reduction in traffic accidents in the past 10 years at nearly 18%. Last year, the number of injuries dropped by nearly 20% and the number of deaths fell by over 12%; and for the first time ever, the number of traffic-related deaths decreased to less than 7,000 people per year. Source: Nhan Dan Online |
