Traffic order and safety ensured after Tet

• New roads, old traffic safety problems
• Can Tho steps up traffic safety measures in the buildup to Tet holiday
• Efforts to enhance year-end traffic safety
• Dissemination and education on traffic safety through stage performances

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh, Chairman of the National Steering Committee on Traffic Safety, urged relevant ministries and central agencies as well as provincial committees on traffic safety to implement measures to ensure traffic order and safety in the remaining days of the Lunar New Year holiday.

The Ministry of Public Security, accordingly, is to direct provincial traffic police forces to coordinate with other police forces to boost patrol, promptly detect and strictly handle violations of traffic law, especially cases relating to alcohol use and speeding. The forces are to be deployed on roads and areas running high risks of traffic jams, particularly at entrances to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, and other major national highways such as Highways No.1, 5, 14.

The Ministry of Transport is to direct provincial departments of transport to continue to strictly implement maintenance plans, ensuring traffic safety conditions of infrastructure; check the implementation of transport plans to serve people’s demand after the Lunar New Year holiday. The ministry is also to direct transport companies and individuals running transport business to employ drivers with professional capacity,  ethics, and experience in complicated routes; and to maintain supervision shifts around the clock to provide timely response to infringement of transport operations and traffic jams reported via hot lines.

From Jan 26 to 30, relevant agencies recorded 192 traffic accidents nationwide, killing 118 people, injuring 197 people, increasing by zero percent of cases, decreasing by 4% of death cases and increasing by 4% of injured cases compared with the same period last year.