Vietnam stabilises road death rate

Road safety measures in Vietnam have succeeded in stabilising the road death rate, which had been increasing steadily year on year prior to their introduction. The road fatality rate for 2015 in Vietnam will be around 9,000 at the year end, according to the latest officially released data. The figures have been released by Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Security and were annoucned at a meeting to evaluate the traffic work in the past five years. Over the past five years from November 2010 t
December 9, 2015 Read time: 2 mins
Road safety measures in Vietnam have succeeded in stabilising the road death rate, which had been increasing steadily year on year prior to their introduction. The road fatality rate for 2015 in Vietnam will be around 9,000 at the year end, according to the latest officially released data. The figures have been released by Vietnam’s Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Security and were annoucned at a meeting to evaluate the traffic work in the past five years. Over the past five years from November 2010 to October 2015, Vietnam has seen 48,015 road deaths in 158,125 crashes. In 2014, the World Health Organisation ranked Vietnam in 45th place out of 172 countries based on its road fatality rate. The Ministry of Transport and Ministry of Security has said that the current road fatality rate is still too high and further measures will be introduced in a bid to curb deaths. The aim is to cut the number of traffic death toll by a minimum of 45% to 5,000 in the next five years.

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