Deputy PM asks for synchronous measures to reduce traffic accidents
Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has emphasised the significance of comprehensive measures for curbing traffic accidents and congestion and building a friendly and safe transport system.
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Truong HoaBinh has emphasised the significance of comprehensive measures for curbing trafficaccidents and congestion and building a friendly and safe transport system.
It is crucial to complete institution and legal framework,while expanding transport infrastructure system, enhancing management capacityof State agencies and building transportation culture, the said while chairing thenational conference on traffic safety 2016 in Hanoi on December 22.
The Deputy PM, who is also head of the National Committeefor Traffic Safety, noted that traffic accident remains complicated, as every day24 people die and other 60 suffer lifetime injury due to traffic accidents.
He suggested that participants at the conference give ideasfor the completion of the Traffic Law and other regulations related to trafficsafety, as well as the application of information technology in ensuring trafficsafety in the 2016-2020 period.
He stressed the need to upgrade database and improve theefficiency of coordination among relevant agencies. Meanwhile, it is necessaryto pay greater attention to vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, while tighteningthe supervision and control of traffic safety violations, he said.
Deputy PM Binh asked the Standing Committee of the NationalCommittee for Traffic Safety to summarise the scientific researches in thefield for ministries and localities to consider the possibility of application.
He also requested for closer cooperation with scientists andlisten to their ideas, thus updating advanced knowledge and technology of theworld.
The conference, which drew representatives from ministries,sectors, localities, domestic and international non-governmental organisationsas well as over 400 scientists and experts in traffic safety, saw theannouncement of 90 scientific researches.
Participants discussed a wide range of issues, including themanagement of road traffic, infrastructure system and vehicles, railway andwaterway traffic safety, as well as shortcomings and solutions to traffic insurancein Vietnam.
They gave recommendations on adjustments to legal documentson traffic safety in Vietnam,especially the Traffic Law 2008.-VNA
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