Nghe An will review and handle the responsibility of the heads of local Party committees and authorities for causing complicated traffic safety and order situations.

Identifying the implementation of Directive No. 10/CT-TTg as a key task that must be carried out regularly, continuously, carried out synchronously, integrated with other major related tasks, specified closely to each locality, meeting the set goals and tasks, in Plan No. 328, the Provincial People's Committee requires enhancing the role and responsibility of leaders of Party committees at all levels, authorities, political and social organizations and unions in leading, directing, and organizing the implementation of work to ensure traffic order and safety and overcome traffic congestion; promoting the strength of the entire political system and the participation of all people; raising awareness and sense of compliance with traffic laws of officials and people. Strive to achieve the goal of overcoming traffic congestion, minimizing traffic accidents.

Authorities check alcohol concentration. Photo courtesy of PV

Regarding tasks and solutions, the Provincial People's Committee requests departments, branches, sectors and People's Committees of districts, cities and towns:

- Focus on seriously and effectively implementing the policies and directions of the Party and the State in ensuring traffic order and safety. Departments, branches, sectors and localities must fully perform their responsibilities in State management of ensuring traffic order and safety. Heads of Party committees and authorities at all levels are fully responsible for ensuring traffic order and safety in their areas of responsibility.

Consider and handle the responsibility of the heads of local Party committees and authorities if the traffic order and safety situation becomes complicated in the area due to lack of leadership, direction, inspection, supervision or inadequate implementation of responsibilities within the scope of management.

All traffic accidents with particularly serious consequences must be reviewed, individualized, and the responsibilities of relevant groups and individuals must be handled.

Scene of a traffic accident on National Highway 1A through Quynh Van commune, Quynh Luu district. Photo: PV

-Tighten discipline, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of State management in ensuring traffic order and safety. Strengthen inspection, examination, investigation, and strictly handle violations of the law, wrongdoings, and negative acts of State traffic management agencies; traffic law enforcement forces, local authorities, and other forces related to investment, construction, and management of traffic safety corridors.

In the process of handling violations of the law on ensuring traffic order and safety, the law must be absolutely respected, "no forbidden zones, no exceptions".

It is strictly forbidden for officials and party members to interfere with or influence the handling of traffic law violations by competent authorities; it is strictly forbidden for assigned forces to show signs of "compliance" or neglect in handling violations in any form.

All cadres and party members who violate traffic laws must be reported to their agencies and units for strict handling according to the regulations of the Party, each sector, agency and unit. Resolutely prosecute, investigate and strictly handle traffic accidents with signs of crime and subjects who resist law enforcement officers in accordance with the provisions of the law.

Checking the necessary documents for the driver. Photo: PV

-Focus on detecting and strictly handling violations that are the main causes of serious traffic accidents, such as: Driving vehicles at a speed exceeding the permitted speed, violating alcohol and drug concentrations, "extending" the vehicle's walls and cargo bed, carrying oversized and overloaded goods...

Continue to resolutely control and handle drivers with alcohol concentration to create positive changes, towards forming habits and culture.If you drink alcohol, do not drive.", first of all in the team of cadres, civil servants, public employees and armed forces.

Each locality must have a specific plan to control alcohol concentration for each route and each area, focusing on cities, towns, industrial parks with a large number of workers, tourist areas... Absolutely do not, for economic benefits, take lightly the prevention and control of the harmful effects of alcohol and beer on people's health, the community, traffic safety, order and social security.

Based on the practical situation, annually organize a general inspection of all types of vehicles in the whole province, strictly handle violations and resolutely request the suspension of operation of vehicles that have expired their usage period, expired registration, and training vehicles that violate traffic order and safety.

Dien Chau Traffic Police Station checks and handles oversized and overloaded vehicles. Photo: PV's documents

- Continue to innovate the content and form of propaganda, dissemination and education of traffic laws in an easy-to-understand, easy-to-absorb manner, suitable for each region, area, locality, age, religion, especially youth, teenagers, students, etc. to create a strong change in awareness and action of all levels, sectors and people in ensuring traffic order and safety; each person must be aware of protecting themselves and responsible for protecting others when participating in traffic. Build, replicate and maintain effective models and good practices in ensuring traffic order and safety.

Applying modern technology in information and communication management to detect and forecast positive and negative information trends, beneficial and detrimental to the direction and operation of ensuring order and safety of road traffic.

-Focus on reviewing, amending, supplementing and perfecting the mechanisms and regulations on ensuring traffic order and safety in the area in the direction of strictly implementing the provisions of the law; at the same time, promptly meeting the practical requirements of socio-economic development, ensuring synchronization and unity in the legal system, focusing on contributing opinions and supporting the completion of the Draft Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety and the Road Law, and submitting them to the National Assembly for approval.

Advise the National Assembly and the Government to supplement and amend sanctions in the Criminal Code and the Law on Handling of Administrative Violations in the field of road traffic in the direction of increasing penalties for dangerous acts that are direct causes of traffic accidents, such as violations of alcohol and drug concentrations, speeding, running red lights, overloading, etc.

Traffic police force regulates traffic on Le Hong Phong street. Photo: Hai Vuong

-Develop a roadmap for synchronous implementation of traffic infrastructure planning in conjunction with socio-economic development planning of sectors, fields, localities, etc.; improve quality, accelerate progress, and construct traffic infrastructure works and key traffic infrastructure investment projects; organize and reorganize traffic scientifically, reasonably, and synchronously in conjunction with the protection of traffic infrastructure, especially traffic safety corridors.

Detect and advise on timely correction of "black spots", "potential spots", "inadequacies in traffic infrastructure" and irrationalities in traffic organization..Ensure and continue to improve the technical safety and environmental protection quality of road motor vehicles; complete the system of technical standards and regulations for vehicles and infrastructure.

- Improve the efficiency of registration and management of road motor vehicles, in the direction of identifying vehicles in conjunction with identifying individuals. Research and institutionalize the method of issuing limited vehicle license plates and paying license plate ownership fees to exploit effectively, avoiding waste of public assets and license plate resources.

- Increase resources for investment in infrastructure and equipment for specialized forces to ensure traffic order and safety. Promote the application of information technology and digital transformation in traffic management, supervision, operation, patrol, control, violation handling, traffic accident investigation, etc.; ensure the ability to connect, integrate, share, and use common databases between the Transport, Police, Health, Finance, Banking sectors, etc.

Mobilize and flexibly use resources to enhance the capacity of specialized forces to ensure traffic order and safety; and the capacity to rescue and treat victims.

- Synchronously deploy solutions to prevent and overcome traffic congestion. Organize traffic flow and routes scientifically and reasonably; strengthen solutions to ensure urban order, manage roads and sidewalks, and strictly handle violations in arranging parking spaces.

Officers of the Provincial Traffic Police Department promote compliance with the Road Traffic Law in schools. Photo: D.C.

The Provincial People's Committee also requested departments, branches, sectors and People's Committees of districts, cities and towns to organize the dissemination to 100% of cadres, party members, civil servants, public employees and armed forces to strictly comply with the provisions of the law on traffic; Build each cadre, civil servant, public employee and worker into a "propagandist" in propagating and mobilizing colleagues, relatives and friends to comply with the provisions of the law when participating in traffic, especially not to drive after consuming alcohol or beer".