Eight driving instructors complete Toyota’s certified course

“This is a practical and meaningful programme that not only contributes to improving traffic safety but also enhance the good relationship between Vietnam and Japan that the two governments have been building for the last 40 years,” said Deputy Minister of Public Security Bui Van Thanh.

Thanh said in order to decrease traffic accidents, the Ministry of Public Security wanted to expand this model to train all police officers that are directly involved in keeping traffic safety as well as other related police forces and then to the whole country.

The Toyota Safety Driving Programme is the first of its kind in Vietnam, aiming to build a team of safety driving instructors for Vietnam traffic police. 

The programme, which lasted from August 2014 to October 2015, involved eight driving instructors of the Department of Traffic Police and Toyota Motors Vietnam (TMV), with instructions from Toyota Motors Corp (TMC)’s safety driving expert Toshio Kanno, who has had 33 years of experience in safety driving training and has trained 60,000 students.

“I hope that safety driving is going to spread to the whole community. I hope that the eight core instructors, when they’re carrying out the programme, are going to contribute their opinions to make the programme better and more suitable for traffic in Vietnam,” said Nobuyori Kodaira, executive vice president of TMC.

TMV has contributed to increasing traffic safety in Vietnam with many programmes including one for primary school students since 2005 and driving training for traffic police. 

In cooperation with the National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC), on February 28 TMV launched the “Toyota joins hands for Vietnam Traffic Safety” programme which aims to promote traffic safety education and raise awareness on traffic safety regulations and enhance the capacity of the government agencies in charge of traffic safety management.