Nghe An strengthens direction of law enforcement on traffic safety

Accordingly, the Provincial People's Committee requests:

Standing Committee of Provincial Traffic Safety Committee:

- Coordinate with relevant departments, branches, media and mass media to thoroughly disseminate and propagate the contents of Official Dispatch No. 1673-CV/TU dated March 8, 2023 of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee. Focus on promoting the role and responsibility of heads of Party committees, local authorities, Party committees of provincial-level agencies and branches in taking the lead in complying with the law on ensuring traffic order and safety.

- Coordinate with the Provincial Police and the Department of Transport to review, detect and promptly advise the Provincial People's Committee to direct the implementation of traffic safety work; overcome existing problems and shortcomings in traffic safety work; urge departments, branches and localities to closely follow the instructions of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee on traffic safety work; clear violations; prevent re-encroachment of traffic safety corridors to implement the work to ensure the correct content and subjects according to regulations.

National online conference to review traffic safety work in the first quarter of 2023 at Nghe An bridge. Photo: Tien Dong

- Persistently build a culture of safe traffic; innovate propaganda, dissemination and education of laws on ensuring traffic order and safety in the direction of taking behavioral changes as criteria for evaluating results; continue to maintain and promote the effectiveness of self-management groups in residential areas; diversify propaganda to raise awareness for drivers participating in traffic through various forms on social networks and digital infrastructure; organize a review of propaganda activities on ensuring traffic order and safety closely following the theme of Traffic Safety Year 2023 "Respecting the law to build a culture of safe traffic".

- Organize reviews and advise the Provincial People's Committee to direct the handling of shortcomings in traffic infrastructure and potential traffic accident points, continue to supplement traffic safety equipment such as signs, road markings, and traffic safety propaganda signs on roads; propose measures to ensure traffic safety between secondary roads and main roads in the province.

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

- Advise on documents assigning members of the Provincial Traffic Safety Committee to strengthen the work of monitoring, urging, and inspecting assigned areas in directing the implementation of the Law on Prevention and Control of Alcohol and Beer Harm; Official Dispatch No. 488/CD-TTg dated June 3, 2022 of the Prime Minister on compliance with regulations on prevention and control of alcohol and beer harm; Directive No. 19/CT-UBND dated September 20, 2022 of the Provincial People's Committee on rectifying and improving the effectiveness of ensuring traffic order and safety in Nghe An province, periodically synthesizing and reporting to the Provincial People's Committee in accordance with regulations.

Department of Transport

- Strengthen the direction of ensuring traffic safety and environmental sanitation at traffic construction projects invested by the Department; strengthen the control of vehicle loads serving the construction of projects.

- Strengthen inspection and review of existing locations and shortcomings in traffic organization, locations with high potential risk of traffic accidents on national highways and provincial roads. Synthesize and report to competent authorities for timely handling to ensure traffic safety.

Traffic Safety Committee checks encroachment on traffic safety corridor in Yen Xuan bridge area. Photo: Dang Cuong

- Strengthen inspection of business conditions of transport enterprises; ensure compliance with regulations in training, testing and granting of driving licenses; strengthen State management of road motor vehicle registration activities.

- Strengthen inspection and guidance for localities and units in the work of clearing violations and preventing re-encroachment of traffic safety corridors according to Plan No. 36 of the Provincial People's Committee on implementing Resolution No. 27/2021/NQ-HDND of the Provincial People's Council on a number of measures to strengthen the work of clearing violations and preventing re-encroachment of road and railway traffic safety corridors in the province for the period 2022 - 2025.

- Direct the Department of Transport Inspectorate to continue to strengthen the implementation of the plan for specialized inspection and examination of transport; coordinate with the Traffic Police to organize inspections of compliance with regulations by operators of transport vehicles, especially drivers.

Traffic Police Team of Vinh City Police set up a checkpoint to check alcohol concentration. Photo: Dinh Tuyen

Provincial Police

- Proactively innovate and diversify propaganda methods on traffic order and safety activities of the people's police force on mass media and social networks. Thoroughly educate officers and soldiers in the process of handling violations of the law to absolutely respect the law, "no forbidden zones, no exceptions", strictly prohibiting intervention and accepting intervention in any form in handling violations of traffic order and safety.

It is especially necessary to detect, prevent and strictly handle according to regulations those who take advantage of, impersonate working for state agencies, the press, and take advantage of social networks to influence the handling of the police force...

Road Traffic Police Team No. 5, Traffic Police Department of the Provincial Police checks alcohol concentration on National Highway 46. Photo: Dinh Tuyen

- Direct the Police of units and localities to strengthen the organization of patrols, control and handling of violations of traffic safety and order, focusing on handling violations that cause traffic accidents and traffic jams, focusing on regularly and resolutely checking and handling the following acts: Violating alcohol concentration when driving; driving with drugs in the body; speeding on the road; violating "extending" the vehicle's body and carrying overloaded or oversized goods on the road, violating driving on the wrong side of the road or lane, violating stopping and parking in violation of regulations.

- In the process of handling violators who are cadres, civil servants, public employees, party members, and armed forces, in addition to handling them according to the provisions of law, it is necessary to send a notice of the violation to the management agency or unit for review and handling according to the regulations. At the same time, it is sent to the Inspection Committee and the internal affairs agency at the same level to monitor the handling of violating civil servants, public employees, armed forces, and party members.

- Coordinate with relevant units to continue reviewing and evaluating the current status of traffic routes to recommend competent authorities to promptly overcome unreasonable traffic organization, resolve "black spots", complex traffic routes with potential risks of causing traffic accidents.

The Department of Education and Training presides over and coordinates with the Provincial Youth Union:

Directing educational institutions and local mass organizations to organize propaganda, education, and mobilization of students, university students, and youth to comply with the law on traffic safety and order. Unanimously promulgate documents to rectify the work of ensuring traffic safety at schools to bring about practical results, reduce the situation of students violating traffic safety and order, prevent the situation of underage students driving motorbikes, scooters, and electric scooters to school; students using motorbikes, scooters to weave, swerve, and race illegally.

A group of teenagers carrying knives and swords, weaving and swinging on the streets, were arrested by the Traffic Police Team of Vinh City Police on the night of March 2. Photo: CATPV

Provincial Radio and Television Station, Nghe An Newspaper,press agencies:

Increase the duration, innovate methods, improve the effectiveness of propaganda, education and guidance for people to comply with the law on traffic safety and order, focusing on propagating the Law on prevention and control of harmful effects of alcohol and beer and the causes and consequences of traffic accidents in general, traffic accidents due to alcohol concentration violations in particular, to raise people's awareness when participating in traffic, seriously implement and form the culture of "If you drink alcohol or beer - do not drive".

Provincial Departments, branches and sectors;People's Committees of districts, cities and towns:

- Strengthen the leadership and direction of Party committees, authorities and organizations at all levels in ensuring traffic order and safety. Thoroughly grasp and require cadres, civil servants, public employees, armed forces and workers in agencies, units and localities to be proactive and exemplary, taking the lead in complying with laws on traffic order and safety; actively mobilize families and everyone to strictly comply with regulations on ensuring traffic order and safety.

- Absolutely do not drive a vehicle after drinking alcohol or beer and do not sit in a vehicle driven by a driver who has consumed alcohol or beer.

- Review and add the content "Do not drive a vehicle while drinking alcohol, beer, alcoholic beverages, or stimulants" to the working regulations and internal rules of agencies and units, and propose measures to handle violations against relevant individuals and groups.

Images from the camera that fines people after being analyzed at the Command Center, Provincial Traffic Police Department, will be sent to the violators. Photo: DC

ForPeople's Committees of districts, cities and towns:

- Continue to implement the 2023 Traffic Safety Year Plan in the locality, and at the same time check compliance with legal regulations on the quality of investment projects, upgrading, maintenance and repair of traffic infrastructure; review and handle black spots and potential traffic accident spots, install speed bumps and warning signs for road users before intersections with railways and at intersections from branch roads to main roads.

- Organize security at intersections between roads and railways where there are no barriers, creating potential traffic accidents.

Authorities inspect a self-opened walkway across the railway. Photo: Tien Dong

- Direct the district and commune-level police to continue to strengthen patrols, control and handle violations of traffic safety and order according to the direction of the Provincial Police and the local Traffic Safety Year 2023 plan; focus on checking and handling people who violate alcohol and drug concentrations while driving; handle high-risk behaviors leading to traffic accidents such as driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs, speeding, and overloading.

- Strengthen leadership and direction in implementing the work of clearing violations and preventing re-encroachment of traffic safety corridors; organize a review of all passenger transport activities across rivers, along rivers, on lakes, dams, and inland waterways to promptly detect, rectify, and handle wharves, material gathering areas, vehicles, and watercraft drivers that do not meet the operating conditions as prescribed.

Authorities handle vehicles violating inland waterway traffic safety. Photo: Duc Vu

In Official Dispatch No. 2739/UBND-NC dated April 13, 2023, Nghe An Provincial People's Committee also requested:

Road Management Area II:Direct affiliated units, investors, and contractors to ensure the progress and quality of projects to handle and renovate black spots and potential traffic accident spots on managed routes, and plans to maintain and repair traffic infrastructure; review and handle black spots and potential traffic accident spots on national highways under management.

Review and promptly repair the traffic light system installed by Road Management Area II on national highways. Have plans to organize and ensure effective traffic, organize warnings, regulate and ensure traffic safety during the rainy and flood seasons.

Direct traffic management units to closely coordinate with local authorities in clearing violations and preventing re-encroachment of traffic safety corridors according to Plan No. 36/KH-UBND dated January 20, 2022 of the Provincial People's Committee.

Nghe Tinh Railway Exploitation Branch:

Actively coordinate with localities where railways run to prevent violations of railway traffic safety corridors; review self-opened walkways with a width of over 3 m that can be narrowed to coordinate with railway units to bury narrowing posts, not allowing cars to pass.

Review and install all road signs, speed bumps and humps to warn of dangerous intersections with railways on the road sections managed by districts and communes; preside over and coordinate with railway units to create smooth traffic between the two rails at self-opened crossings according to the instructions of the Ministry of Transport.