At the event (Photo: VNA) Ho Chi Minh City (VNA) – The National TrafficSafety Committee and the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee on November 11held an annual requiem for the victimswho lost their life to traffic accidents in Vietnam this year.
The event aims to raise an alarm in the whole society ontraffic accidents in the country, thus raising awareness of the community inabiding by the traffic law and calling on them to assist the victims and theirfamilies.
The participants observed a minute of silence in memory ofthe victims and the organizing board delivered relief aid to representatives ofbereaved families.
Speaking at the event, Permanent Deputy Prime MinisterTruong Hoa Binh, who is also head of the national committee, said that trafficaccidents take the life of over 8,000 people and injure more than 15,000 othersin Vietnam each year. Losses caused by traffic accidents are causing adverseinfluences on the country’s economic growth and hurting the image of Vietnam inthe eye of foreign friends and partners, the official stressed.
He called on relevant State offices, organisations and thewhole people to seriously abide by legal provisions on traffic safety, addingthe community should join hands to build and implement the traffic civilizationand to ease the pains of the families of traffic accidents.
In October alone, the whole country saw more than 114,000traffic accidents that took the life of over 6,000 people and injured more than10,000 others, lower than the figures recorded the same time last year.
In 2005, the United Nations designated the third Sunday ofevery November as the day for the world to remember the victims who die intraffic accidents. Vietnam started to join the day in 2012./.
The event aims to raise an alarm in the whole society ontraffic accidents in the country, thus raising awareness of the community inabiding by the traffic law and calling on them to assist the victims and theirfamilies.
The participants observed a minute of silence in memory ofthe victims and the organizing board delivered relief aid to representatives ofbereaved families.
Speaking at the event, Permanent Deputy Prime MinisterTruong Hoa Binh, who is also head of the national committee, said that trafficaccidents take the life of over 8,000 people and injure more than 15,000 othersin Vietnam each year. Losses caused by traffic accidents are causing adverseinfluences on the country’s economic growth and hurting the image of Vietnam inthe eye of foreign friends and partners, the official stressed.
He called on relevant State offices, organisations and thewhole people to seriously abide by legal provisions on traffic safety, addingthe community should join hands to build and implement the traffic civilizationand to ease the pains of the families of traffic accidents.
In October alone, the whole country saw more than 114,000traffic accidents that took the life of over 6,000 people and injured more than10,000 others, lower than the figures recorded the same time last year.
In 2005, the United Nations designated the third Sunday ofevery November as the day for the world to remember the victims who die intraffic accidents. Vietnam started to join the day in 2012./.
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