Youth volunteers join a public campaign raising awareness of the importance of traffic safety among the community.
The schedule was announced at a press brief on Tuesday held by the National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC) and the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha as part of activities in response to the 2015 World Day of Remembrance for Victims of Road Traffic Accidents, which falls on the third Sunday of November.
Deputy Head of the NTSC Khuat Viet Hung said that the campaign aims to give stronger warnings about the enormous loss and damage that each family, community, and society suffers from traffic accidents, in order to raise awareness of the importance of traffic safety and observance of traffic laws of each member in society.Launched for the fourth time in Vietnam, this year’s campaign includes key activities aiming to disseminate information on traffic safety through media publications and visiting families of accident victims.
Following the Nam Dinh requiem next Sunday, a grand requiem will be held in Hanoi on November 15 in the form of role-playing to create an overall picture of catastrophic accidents, thereby raising the awareness and sense of responsibility in the observance of road safety laws and urgent need to prevent traffic accidents. The event will be broadcast live on Vietnam Television Channel 1.
According to Hung, each year there are 1.3 million deaths from traffic accidents globally. It is forecast that by 2020 there will be about 2 million deaths and hundreds of millions of injuries as a result of traffic accidents.
In Vietnam, traffic accidents have decreased in comparison with the same period last year on three criteria: the number of cases, number of deaths, and number of serious injuries. However, traffic accidents still claim the lives of 20 people and injure 70 others each day on Vietnam‘s roads, causing a damage of VND250-300 billion annually.
