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 VietNamNet Bridge – Luu Duc Hoang, 17, a student from a high school in the northern port city of Hai Phong, does not have a driving licence, but he drives a motorbike every day to school.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The chairman of HCM City People’s Committee has asked all city districts to strengthen enforcement of traffic laws as the number of accidents and fatalities rose dramatically in the first seven months of the year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam loses 2.5 per cent of its gross domestic product (GDP) annually due to traffic accidents.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City will focus on easing traffic jams in the two worst affected areas before year-end -- roads leading to Tan Son Nhat International Airport and Cat Lai Port - an official has said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Khuat Viet Hung, vice chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee, recently spoke to the Thoi Bao Kinh Te (the Economic Times) newspaper about vehicle accidents on highways.

 VietNamNet Bridge – General Le Van Cuong, former director of the Institute for Strategic Studies, spoke to the Hai quan Cuoi tuan (Weekend Customs) newspaper about improving awareness of law enforcement.

 As many as 334 traffic accidents occurred nationwide during the first 8 days of the nine-day Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday (February 6-13), claiming 210 lives and injuring 331 others.

VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang has had no other choice but to issue an ultimatum for the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam to remove unjustified speed limit traps that have become a nightmare for motorists. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the last three years, nearly 13,000 traffic accidents have occurred in HCM City, killing 2,141 people and injuring 11,686, of which 80 per cent were caused by lack of driver awareness about traffic laws.

 During the first three days of 2016, there were 124 traffic accidents and 65 fatalities, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee.

 Road accidents and fatalities have dropped this year, according to statistics from the National Committee of Traffic Safety.

 Despite recent positive shifts in national traffic safety, the death toll from accidents this year still stood at about 9,000 people, and was "too high for the country to afford", said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A sleeper-bus in Quang Nam Province killed an 18 year-old woman yesterday and seriously injured 40 others after hitting a truck, without its warning signal, parked on the side of National Highway 1A.

 VietNamNet Bridge – With the new school year approaching this week Ha Noi police called for co-operation from schools to crack down on students riding electrical bikes without wearing helmets.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Hoan Kiem District Party Committee on Wednesday (August 19) asked the district People's Committee to cancel the plan to pave 11 Old Quarter pedestrianised streets with natural stones.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Can Tho placed traffic police dummies holding speed-measuring devices along dangerous roads in Thot Not District last month to slow down drivers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Despite the decline in traffic accidents since 2012, up to 26 people die every day on Viet Nam's roads.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Khuat Viet Hung, Vice-chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee, told Vietnamplus.vn that though less traffic accidents have occurred so far this year, overloaded trucks pose a safety threat.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam recorded as many as 11,179 traffic accidents in six months, from last December 16 to June 15, which killed 4,478 people and injuring 10,149 others,