Motorbikes culpable for most HCM City traffic accidentsMotorbikes were the main cause of traffic accidents in HCM City in the first six months of the year, a meeting on traffic safety heard Tuesday afternoon. The meeting was co-organised by the National Traffic Safety Committee and HCM City’s Traffic Safety Board to discuss efforts to ensure traffic safety in the southern city. Deputy Chairman of the National Traffic Safety Committee Khuat Viet Hng said, to address the problem, HCM City needed to uestablish an inter-sector inspection team to handle traffic accident hotspots. Scene of a traffic accident in HCM City in June. Raising public awareness of traffic safety was also a pressing issue, he said.

Source: VietNamNet News July 15, 2016 01:18 UTC