VOV.VN - A truck carrying a total of nine people plunged off a cliff in Dak Somei - Ha Dong inter-commune route in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai on February 9, resulting in the death of six people and injuring three others.

As many as 216 traffic accidents occurred nationwide, killing 121 people and injuring 138 others during the Lunar New Year holiday from January 29 to February 6, reported the Traffic Police Department.

As many as 11,495 traffic accidents nationwide killed 5,799 people and injured 8,018 others in one year between December 15, 2020 and December 14, 2021, according to the Office of the National Traffic Safety Committee.

Traffic accidents decreased in three criteria year-on-year from September 15 to October 14, said Chief of the Office of the National Traffic Safety Committee Tran Huu Minh.

VOV.VN - Three construction workers have been killed and one left severely injured after a landslide triggered by torrential rains hit Ha Long city of the northern province of Quang Ninh.

Vietnam saw 6,340 traffic accidents taking place between December 15, 2020 and June 14, 2021, claiming 3,192 lives and injuring 4,475 people.

VOV.VN - Vietnam has witnessed an overall decline in terms of the number of traffic accidents occurring over the past year, leaving 6,180 people dead and a further 9,959 people injured in such incidents. However, traffic collisions have still led to a number of catastrophic consequences during the year.

A total of 5,456 people were killed and 8,630 others injured in 11,653 traffic accidents nationwide in the first ten months of 2020, according to the National Traffic Safety Committee.

VOV.VN - At least eight people were killed and seven were injured following a tragic road traffic collision between a passenger coach and a truck in Binh Thuan province, southern Vietnam, early on July 21.