This National Day (September 2) holiday seemed to be particularly dangerous with accidents claiming dozens of lives and injuring hundreds around the country.
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| Vehicles lined up to go across Cat Lai ferry in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 2 on the afternoon of September 4. |
Viet Duc Hospital in Hanoi received almost 200 victims from September 2 to 4.
In the southern province of Dong Nai, two train crashes on September 3 killed two people and seriously injured another.
In the central Quang Ngai Province, a 73-year-old woman was hit and killed by a train when she chased after a cow on the rail track on September 4.
On September 4, two men were killed following a collision between their motorbike and a car on National Highway 1A in the central province of Binh Dinh.
In Tra Vinh in the Mekong Delta, a truck crashed into four motorbikes September 4, killing one and injuring three others. On the same day a passenger bus overturned in the Bao Loc mountain pass in Lam Dong Province, leaving nine passengers severely injured.
The same day the brakes failed on a tractor-trailer which skidded backwards from the mountain pass and crashed into a motorbike behind, injuring 37-year-old Le Thi My Linh and killing her two children on the spot.