January 6, 2012
A total of 95 Vietnamese people were killed and 81 others injured in 117 traffic accidents across the country during the New Year holiday. Figures from the Road and Railway Police Department showed that only one of the accidents occurred on the railway, killing one person, while all others on the roads, news website [...]
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December 1, 2011
From next year, the Vietnamese government will start re-setting order for traffic, which is currently in an emergency situation with the traffic accident death toll higher than the fatalities from wars in other countries, deputy prime minister said. Nguyen Xuan Phuc made the statement at the national conference on traffic safety Monday, VnExpress reported. According to the [...]
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November 23, 2011
Vietnamese-Australian Singer Thanh Bui and Vietnamese-American actress Kathy Uyen (second and third places) discuss road safety with local students. Actress Kathy Uyen and singer Thanh Bui paid a visit to Truong Van Thanh Primary School in Ho Chi Minh City in honor of World Remembrance Day for Road Traffic Victims on November 20. Uyen and [...]
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October 23, 2011
A traffic jam in Hanoi. The capital city now has nearly 400,000 cars and some four million motorbikes. Cars with five to seven seats are the main instigators of traffic jams and accidents in Vietnam, according to Khuat Viet Hung, head of the Department of Transport Planning and Management at the University of Transport, who [...]
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June 19, 2011
No headway can be made against drinking and driving if punitive measures are not meted out strictly and obviously Vu The Bang, 65, of Binh Phuoc Province’s Dong Phu District crashed into a parking truck in drunk condition and was killed on the spot in an accident last June. The government is discussing a [...]
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May 22, 2011
At least 220 people were killed in 257 traffic accidents in Ho Chi Minh City in the first quarter of this year. At least 220 people were killed in 257 traffic accidents in Ho Chi Minh City in the first quarter of this year, compared to 176 fatalities the same period last year, municipal officials [...]
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April 25, 2011
Careless driving, disregard for the law and weak implementation combine to kill increasing numbers of people in road traffic accidents The wrecked vehicles in an accident involving a bus and a freezer truck on April 18 in the north-central province of Ha Tinh that killed three and injured twenty others Five-year-old Ly thinks her [...]
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February 6, 2011
Compulsory helmet law should apply irrespective of age, health experts say A boy sleeps without wearing a helmet as his mother rides her bike in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Horns blaring incessantly, a motorcyclist without a helmet snakes through a crowded street in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. His violation of traffic laws [...]
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January 15, 2011
Victim of a motorbike accident sits on a sidewalk in HCMC’s Binh Thanh District. Sometimes, disasters are not so in-your-face, like a tsunami or an earthquake. They could happen in bits and pieces, in trickles instead of a deluge, and we are not likely to see them as a full-scale disaster. Last month, a national [...]
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January 15, 2010
Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai on Tuesday agreed that Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City should be allowed to raise fines for traffic violations after they complained about worsening traffic problems. Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City topped the list of traffic jams lasting more than one hour each in 2009, with Hanoi recording [...]
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