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Crackdown targets speeding drivers

 VietNamNet Bridge – A two-month crackdown on speeding coaches has been launched nation-wide in an attempt to prevent deadly traffic accidents.

Traffic accidents prompt stricter road supervision

 VietNamNet Bridge – Transport minister Dinh La Thang has asked for stricter control over the operation of coaches and heavy trucks to prevent traffic accidents.

Traffic signs not up to scratch

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 64,000 substandard traffic signs need to be replaced along 17,000km of roads nation-wide, according to the Ministry of Transport's Directorate for Roads of Viet Nam.

SOCIETY IN BRIEF 28/5

 Immunisation services suspended in Tuy Hoa; Month-long campaign targets poor, ethnic children; 4,000 killed on roads in five months; North prepares for further heat waves

Reckless pedestrians cause traffic accidents

 VietNamNet Bridge – A 37-year-old man was hit and killed by a truck while climbing a concrete median strip to cross Highway 1A in HCM City's Binh Tan District last Thursday night.

More than 100 die on roads during long weekend

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 100 people died in traffic accidents throughout Viet Nam during the five-day holiday to mark Liberation and May Day.

Calls for traffic order as road death toll increases

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 5,600 traffic accidents were reported over the past two months of this year, killing nearly 2,000 people and injuring almost 5,800 others, a recent conference on traffic safety heard yesterday.

SOCIETY IN BRIEF 26/3

16 injured in head-on bus/truck crash; RoK: guest workers to benefit by returning home; Traffic order needed to reduce road death toll; Focus to be directed on emerging diseases

Alarm raised over traffic accidents on national highway

 VietNamNet Bridge – A series of fatal accidents have continuously occurred along National Highway 1A in the central provinces, raising concerns about traffic safety on this stretch of road.

Doctors warn of alcohol poisoning during Tet

 VietNamNet Bridge – During Tet Lunar New Year, alcohol consumption rises and the number of drunken drivers causing traffic accidents always increases.

Traffic accidents kill 234 during Tet

 VietNamNet Bridge – A National Traffic Safety Board preliminary report states more than 290 traffic accidents occurred during the first six days of the traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday,

HCM City sees accidents decline

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City succeeded in decreasing the number of traffic accidents, fatalities and injuries last year, but several factors take the shine off this achievement, experts say.

Traffic fatalities drop to below 10,000

 VietNamNet Bridge – For the first time in a decade, the number of fatalities from traffic accidents has dropped to under 10,000 in 2012, it was reported at a conference on January 3 to review the 2012 Year of Traffic Safety.