On the morning of January 9, Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee Tran Luu Quang launched the launching ceremony of Traffic Safety Year 1 and the peak period to ensure traffic order and safety. Lunar New Year Giap Thin and Spring Festival 2024.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang assessed that in 2023, the socio-economic growth will continue, the need to move people and trade goods will increase, creating great pressure on the task of ensuring order and safety. traffic (traffic safety).
However, with the early and synchronous direction of the Secretariat and the Prime Minister and the timely, drastic and effective implementation of ministries, branches and localities, the traffic safety situation in 2023 will continue to improve. Ensuring that traffic accidents will decrease compared to the same period in 2022.
Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang spoke at the ceremony (Photo: Ta Hai).
Appreciating the dedicated, determined and persistent working spirit of the forces working to ensure traffic safety, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang emphasized that the National Traffic Safety Committee's 2024 traffic safety plan with the theme " "Respect the law to build a safe traffic culture" sets out 3 goals: Raise awareness of self-compliance with the law and build a safe traffic culture; annually restrain and reduce traffic accidents in terms of number of cases, number of deaths and number of injuries; overcome traffic congestion on main traffic axes and in large urban areas.
To achieve the above goals, the Deputy Prime Minister requested cadres, party members, civil servants and public employees; Parents and teachers set an example of "Respecting the law", creating motivation to raise awareness of voluntarily obeying traffic safety laws, gradually building a safe traffic culture for the whole society.
Along with that, resolutely and persistently handle violations of traffic safety regulations, especially violations of alcohol concentration, speed violations, avoiding and overtaking in violation of regulations; violation of carrying overloaded goods; Vehicles that do not ensure technical safety; Do not wear a helmet when riding a motorbike or motorbike...
The Deputy Prime Minister asked press agencies to continue to accompany propaganda so that the spirit of respect for the law increasingly spreads throughout society.
At the same time, speed up progress, ensure quality and absolutely ensure traffic safety in investment projects, upgrading, repairing and maintaining traffic infrastructure; Strengthen management, inspection, and technical safety assurance for vehicles; Continue to improve quality and safety with transportation business activities.
Hanoi City Traffic Police Force at the Launching Ceremony (Photo: Ta Hai).
At the launching ceremony, Mr. Khuat Viet Hung - Vice Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee said that the traffic safety situation in 2023 is basically guaranteed.
Traffic accidents continue to be controlled and reduced compared to the same period in 2022 in the number of cases and deaths, down 1.285 cases, down 1.922 deaths. There are no longer long traffic jams at toll stations during peak periods.
In society, a new culture of "drinking, not driving" has gradually formed. Violations of overloading vehicles and expanding them into truck beds have been fundamentally handled.
However, the situation of traffic order and safety is still complicated, the number of cases, deaths and injuries due to traffic accidents is still high; There have also been some particularly serious traffic accidents, killing and injuring many people, causing anger in public opinion..
