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Ceremony to commemorate traffic accident victims to be held in HCM City
  • | dtinews.vn | November 13, 2019 06:18 PM
The National Traffic Safety Committee will organise a national-level ceremony to commemorate traffic accidents victims in HCM City.

The event to respond to the World Day of Remembrance for Victims of Road Traffic Accidents will take place on Le Duan Street in District 1 on Sunday morning, November 17.

  

A national-level ceremony to commemorate traffic accidents victims to be held in HCM City


The programme, which will be televised, intends to warn people about traffic accidents in Vietnam and raise public awareness and responsibility in the observance of the Road Traffic Law and preventing traffic accidents.

According to the HCM City Department of Transport, to ensure order and safety for the event, the city will ban vehicles on part of Le Duan Street which runs from Nam Ky Khoi Nghia to Pasteur streets from midnight of November 15 to 3 pm on November 17.

The National Traffic Safety Committee reported that in the first 10 months of this year, Vietnam witnessed up to 14,251 road traffic accidents, killing around 6,300 and injuring 10,900 people. Of the sum, HCM City saw 2,600 cases with 531 deaths.

Along with this, response activities are planned across the country. The National Traffic Safety Committee in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Training and other relevant units will organise communication activities, such as taking a minute’s silence and reading the messages to commemorate traffic accident victims at the flag-saluting ceremony in schools, as well as visiting and encouraging victims’ families and organising requiems.

Since 2005, the United Nations have selected the third Sunday of November every year as the World Day of Remembrance for Victims of Road Traffic Accidents and Vietnam has observed the event since 2012.

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