Vietnam records traffic safety improvements in January
Traffic safety nationwide improved considerably in January with sharp declines recorded in the number of accidents, deaths and injured people, statistics showed.
Vehicles move on Phap Van-Cau Gie Expressway to Hanoi (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Traffic safety nationwide improvedconsiderably in January with sharp declines recorded in the number ofaccidents, deaths and injured people, statistics showed.
In January, 726 traffic accidents occurred,killing 526 people and injuring 450 others. The daily averages in the monthwere 24.9 accidents, 17 deaths and 14.5 injured cases, which respectively fell51.6 percent, 18.7 percent and 61.1 percent from the average daily figures of2019, according to the Ministry of Public Security’s Traffic Police Departmentand the Vietnam Maritime Administration.
During the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday fromJanuary 23 to 29, 198 accidents happened, claiming 133 lives and injuring 174others. Compared to the seven-day Tet holiday last year, the figures decreased10.8 percent, 5 percent and 17.9 percent, respectively.
Additionally, traffic accidents caused by drinkdriving also fell strongly. Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi and Cho Ray Hospital inHo Chi Minh City reported that during this year’s Tet holiday, the number ofvictims in drink driving-related accidents reduced by almost 75 percent fromthe same period of 2019.
Many opinions attributed the improvements partlyto the Government’s Decree 100/2019/ND-CP that details fines for administrativeviolations in road and railway traffic, and the law on prevention and controlof harms of alcohol and beer. Both came into force on January 1, 2020./.
HCM City hopes to reduce traffic accidents, fatalities and injuries by 5-10 percent this year, said Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong, who is also head of the city Traffic Safety Board.
The number of traffic accidents has fallen dramatically, just two weeks after the drink-driving law took, according to Major Gen. Le Xuan Duc, Deputy Director of the Traffic Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security (MoPS).
A total of 198 traffic accidents occurred nationwide, killing 133 people and injuring 174 others during the Lunar New Year (Tet) holidays between January 23-29 nationwide.
As many as 17,386 cases of drunk driving were handled in January with a total fines of more than 53 billion VND (2.27 million USD), according to the Ministry of Public Security’s Traffic Police Department.
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Vehicles move on Phap Van-Cau Gie Expressway to Hanoi (Photo: VNA) 
