Road Traffic Accidents In Vietnam

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Tue Dinh Tran Eng101 – Wyman Final Essay March 15th, 2011 Road Traffic Accident in Vietnam In the world, nowadays, there are many factors that threaten the peaceful lives of human beings such as the HIV/AIDS killed millions of people in Africa; cancer and malaria took away the lives of millions people all over the world. Other factors are disasters like the earthquake and the tsunami hit Japan and killed thousands of people in March 2011. These factors are somehow unpredictable and unavoidable; they just happen and suddenly take your life away. However, in Vietnam, there is a factor that is totally caused by human and can be avoided by human, but it killed more people than any other accidents, diseases or disasters. It is road traffic accident. Like other developing countries in Asia and Africa, road traffic accidents in Vietnam have been increasing at the alarming growth rate in the recent years and this “disaster” must be more concerned by the Vietnamese government as well as other countries and organizations all over the world. In the following parts of this essay, I will discuss about an actual conditions of road traffic accidents in Vietnam, its consequences, its causes and solutions for this problem. First of all, although Vietnamese government and Vietnamese people had a lot of effort in increasing the traffic safety and decreasing the number of road traffic accidents, the number of traffic accidents is still at the very high level. The figure 1 below shows the number of road traffic accidents, fatalities and injuries by road traffic accidents in Vietnam from 1990 up to 2004. [pic][pic] Due to the strong actions made by the government, the number of traffic accidents and injuries reduced significantly in 2003 and 2004 but the number of fatalities was still very high. In 2007, the National Traffic Safety Committee (NTSC)

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