Helmets presented to improve children’s road sense
Nearly 1,000 students of the Ba Dinh Primary School in Hanoi were presented with high-quality helmets on November 8 in an effort to help raise public awareness of road safety.
Students of the Ba Dinh Primary School in Hanoi are presented with helmets on November 8 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Nearly 1,000 students of the BaDinh Primary School in Hanoi were presented with high-quality helmets onNovember 8 in an effort to help raise public awareness of road safety.
The presentation event was organised by theEmbassy of Sweden in Vietnam, the Asia Injury Prevention (AIP) Foundation, andsome Swedish businesses.
According to the National Traffic SafetyCommittee (NTSC), traffic accidents claim the lives of almost 1,900 children inVietnam every year, and they are one of the two main causes of deaths for thoseaged between 5 and 14. Aside from the accidents caused by adults, in manycases, children are both the cause and the victims.
The main cause of children’s traffic ruleviolation is adults’ lack of responsibility and attention to them, thecommittee said, adding that the poor road sense of many adults has set badexamples to children.
At the event, NTSC Office Manager Nguyen TrongThai said road accidents are currently a challenge to Vietnam as well as allcountries around the world. In Vietnam, the numbers of traffic accidents,deaths and injured people remain high through they have declined in recentyears. Nearly 6,600 people were killed and 11,000 others got injured by trafficaccidents from January to October this year.
He added that wearing helmets for children isfirstly the responsibility of schools and parents, urging teachers and parentsto instruct students to abide by traffic rules and encourage parents to requiretheir children to wear helmets while bringing children to schools bymotorbikes.
President of the AIP Foundation Greig Craft saidalthough the adherence to the helmet wearing rule has been improved amongadults, the rate among children is still low.
The AIP Foundation estimates that motorbike users account for 58 percent of thetotal deaths from traffic accidents and they mainly sustain head injuries.-VNA
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Students of the Ba Dinh Primary School in Hanoi are presented with helmets on November 8 (Photo: VNA) 
