National Traffic Safety Committee holds online conference

The National Traffic Safety Committee held an online conference to review the work of ensuring traffic order and safety in the first quarter and deploy directions and tasks for the second quarter of 2024. Comrade Nguyen Van Thang, member of the Party Central Committee, Minister of Transport , Permanent Vice Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee chaired the conference. Attending the conference at the Nam Dinh province bridge was comrade Ha Lan Anh, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee.

In the first quarter of 2024, with the drastic and synchronous implementation of solutions to ensure traffic safety, the traffic safety situation across the country has been basically controlled. The Ministry of Transport has conducted nearly 10,000 inspections and checks; sanctioned over 3,300 violations with fines of over 14.8 billion VND; supervised 113 car driving tests and 125 motorcycle driving tests. The national traffic police force inspected and handled over 1,000,000 cases of traffic safety violations on roads, railways and inland waterways, imposing fines of over 2,000 billion VND; revoked over 200,000 driving licenses, certificates and professional certificates; Temporarily detained over 373,000 vehicles of all kinds, an increase of over 285,000 cases handled, an increase of over 675 billion VND in fines compared to the same period in 2023. From December 15, 2023 to March 14, 2024, there were 6,550 traffic accidents nationwide, killing over 2,700 people and injuring over 5,200 people. The number of deaths due to traffic accidents decreased by 484 people. However, the number of traffic accidents and the number of people injured due to traffic accidents tended to increase, increasing by nearly 1,200 cases, an increase of 22.3%.

To achieve the goal of continuing to control and reduce traffic accidents in all three criteria of number of cases, number of deaths and number of injuries compared to 2023, the National Traffic Safety Committee coordinates with ministries, branches, localities and related organizations to conduct in-depth assessments of outstanding issues in ensuring traffic safety. Advise, recommend and propose solutions suitable to the new situation. Ministries, branches and localities continue to resolutely implement solutions to ensure traffic safety, proactively review, detect and handle black spots and potential traffic accident risks. Traffic police continue to maximize their forces to coordinate with related forces, patrol, control and handle traffic safety violations, especially maintaining inspections and handling of driving violations of alcohol and drug concentrations. Strengthen the implementation of propaganda anddissemination activities on traffic safety laws in conjunction with the theme of Traffic Safety Year 2024, raising awareness and consciousness of traffic participants to ensure a sustainable reduction in the number of cases, deaths and injuries due to traffic accidents. ./

Le Minh

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