Local leaders urged to uphold responsibilities in ensuring traffic safety

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has boosted local leaders and relevant agencies uphold their responsibilities in examining, controlling and punishing violations to traffic safety, as well as preventing overloaded vehicles from destroying transport infrastructure.

 

He stated shortcomings in ensuring traffic safety, including increasing waterway accidents, insuring and hiding overloaded vehicles, and irresponsibility of on-duty traffic officers, asking ministries, sectors and localities to take actions immediately to clear up the matters.

 

The official required ministries and agencies to take notice of localities’ suggestions on keeping fine for their investment in equipment and facilities to ensure traffic safety.

 

He also requested the Ministry of Transportation to study and suggest amendments and supplements to legal regulations on transportation, enhance control over transport load and speed up several transport projects while asking the Ministry of Public Security to foster patrol and examination on traffic safety across the country, punish strictly violations in bearing fake number plates and check intersections between public roads and railways to minimise traffic accidents.

 

According to the National Traffic Safety Committee, over the past nine months, traffic safety and order nationwide has seen positive changes, in which congestion in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and major highways continued to be eased; overloaded vehicles on roads fell sharply; the number of traffic accidents and casualties kept decreasing.