VOV.VN - January 21, the second day of the week-long lunar New Year (Tet) holiday, saw 13 people killed and 15 others injured in 22 traffic accidents across the country, according to the Traffic Police Department.
Eighty-three traffic accidents happened in the three days of the New Year, killing 50 people and injuring 51 others, an increase of 29.7%, 31.6% and 45.7%, respectively, according to the Ministry of Public Security.
Twenty six traffic accidents occurred nationwide on December 31 - the first day of the 2023 New Year holidays (December 31-January 2), killing 14 people and injuring 11 others, according to the Ministry of Public Security’s Traffic Police Department.
VOV.VN - Approximately 11,500 traffic accidents nationwide killed a total of 6,384 people and injured 7,804 others between December 15, 2021, and December 14, 2022, according to figures given by the Office of the National Traffic Safety Committee.
There were 1,111 traffic accidents nationwide from October 15 to November 14, killing 579 people and injuring 833 others, said chief of the Office of the National Traffic Safety Committee Tran Huu Minh.
Two foreign sailors suffering work accidents offshore were brought to Nha Trang city, the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa, for treatment on November 17.
VOV.VN - The National Traffic Safety Committee will organise a range of activities across the country in response to World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims that falls on November 20 this year.
VOV.VN - The police of Thua Thien-Hue province, central Vietnam, have launched an investigation into the cause of a head-on collision between a sleeper bus and a truck, leaving 2 dead and 13 injured.
VOV.VN - About 20 passengers, including 15 foreigners, have been hospitalized for injury treatment after their bus overturned in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh.
VOV.VN - As many as 12 people have been injured in an accident which saw a passenger bus flip over on September 19 morning in the central province of Ha Tinh, according to details given by local police.