VOV.VN - A swarm of vehicles have inundated the capital’s gateways as people seek to leave Hanoi and return to their hometowns for the seven-day Tet break starting on January 20.

VOV.VN - Recent days has seen local residents of Hanoi head out to streets in even larger droves than normal as the capital prepares for the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, the biggest of its kind in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Hordes of people returned to Hanoi on January 2 after enjoying a three-day New Year break, making major gateways to the city centre congested.

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.

VOV.VN - An estimated 130,000 passengers are forecast to pass through Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City every day during the 2023 Lunar New Year festival, locally known as Tet.

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.

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.