Scene of a traffic accident in Vietnam (Photo: VOV)Hanoi (VNA) - Fifty-eightpeople died and 58 others were injured in traffic accidents nationwide duringthe three-day holiday.
Seventy-four road accidents took placenationwide during the National Day holiday from last September 2 to September 4,according to statistics from the Ministry of Public Security (MPS)’s TrafficPolice General Department.
Of those, twenty-five occured on September 4,killing 22 and injuring 16.
Police nationwide handled about 9,200 roadsafety violations in the last three days, confiscating about 6.4 billion VND (281,600USD) of fines and 667 driving licenses, seizing 65 cars and 997 motorbikes.
The hotline number of the National TrafficSafety Committee received about 131 phone calls and text messages on transportviolations. Most of them were about heavy vehicles carrying more passengersthan allowed, increasing fare prices, and causing traffic congestion on routesleading to tourism sites and on national routes in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
The two most serious accidents took placein the northern Vinh Phuc province on September 2, and central Quang Binh provinceon September 3.
Two coach buses, one with 16 seats andanother with 29 seats, collided at about 12:40 am on September 2 while travellingin the same direction on the stretch of the Noi Bai-Lao Cai Highway runningthrough Vinh Phuc province’s Binh Xuyen Binh Xuyen district.
As the result of the impact, the 16-seatcoach bus then struck a 45-seat coach bus that was travelling in the samedirection. Eleven passengers were injured, with four of them beinghospitalised.
On September 3 morning, a north-to-south trainhit a large excavating shovel machine that was crossing the railway some 2km from the NganSon train station in central Quang Binh province’s Bo Trach district.
The accident injured the shovel’s driver,the train driver and his assistant, destroying the shovel and damaging thefirst two cars of the train. All 90 train passengers aboard the train were reportedto have been unharmed.-VNA
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