The Ministry of Transport on launched the Traffic Safety Year 2023, which aims to decrease the annual number of accidents, deaths, and injuries by five to 10%.

As many as 152 traffic accidents occurred in the country during the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday, from January 20 to January 26, a year-on-year decrease of 12 cases, according to the Ministry of Transport.

VOV.VN - There were a total of 1,142 newborns delivered during the seven-day Lunar New Year (Tet) festival from January 20 to January 26, according to the latest report by the Hanoi Department of Health.

VOV.VN - A total of 133 traffic accidents have occurred in Vietnam during the first six days of the lunar New Year (Tet) break from January 20 to January 25, leaving 77 dead and 96 injured.

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.

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.