Necessary to develop Law to ensure road traffic safety and order

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Traffic police force is inspecting overloaded means of transport on national highway 51 in the section through Bien Hoa City

Currently, the Road Traffic Law 2008 is regulating many aspects such as: traffic rules, people and vehicles, transport infrastructure, transportation, etc. Due to the low adjustment effect on safety and order. The Ministry of Public Security recommended deviding into two laws, the Law on Road Traffic Safety and Order and the Law on Road Traffic 2008.

Many adjustments and additions are included

The Ministry of Public Security assessed that, although the Law on Road Traffic in 2008 has been applied efficiently; however, the current legal documents related to the task of ensuring road traffic order and safety still remain certain inadequacies.

Therefore, according to the Ministry of Public Security, it is necessary to develop a Law to ensure road traffic order and order to unify the state management of road traffic safety and order, transparency, synchronization; create a uniform legal basis to apply the regulations on handling of road traffic violations; ensure the lawful rights and interests of organizations and individuals; meet the requirements of simplifying administrative procedures; and contribute to perfecting the legal basis for ensuring national security, social order and safety.The draft of the law on ensuring the road traffic safety and order has many new points added, replacing the provisions of the Law on Road Traffic 2008.

Typically, the draft law on ensuring road traffic safety and order specifies the vehicle (concept, model, type, conditions to participate in the traffic of the vehicle), stipulates the conditions of drivers for ease of manipulation, implementation, and assurance of management in order to prevent many vehicles from participating in the traffic without management and being arbitrary to observe the law by drivers only due to not being prescrbied by law, causing difficulties and potential traffic accidents, insecurities, and violations to occur regularly and widespread.

In addition, the draft law on ensuring road traffic safety and order also specifies the system of road signs, and speed and distance between vehicles participating in road traffic, etc. in a simple and easy way to understand, remember and follow.

Contributing to ensuring traffic safety

At a national online conference to implement the task of ensuring traffic safety and order in 2020, Lieutenant-general Vu Do Anh Dung, Director of the Traffic Police Department of the Ministry of Public Security, said that recent traffic accidents were out of control of functional forces. Many subjects take advantage of traffic congestion to obstruct and disrupt the social order, but the traffic police force lacks a legal corridor to handle it.

“The current legal documents are not enough sanctions in sanctioning traffic safety violations as well as handling the causes of accidents. In particular, there is a reason that the legal corridor on traffic safety and order is not strong enough; State management on traffic safety is still inadequate”, emphasized Lt. Gen. Do Anh Dung.

Representatives of the Propaganda Team to investigate, solve traffic accidents and handle violations of the Traffic Police Department of the provincial Police Department said that the enactment of the law on traffic safety and order will help the functional forces easily handle violations as well as manage vehicle drivers. In particular, the law covers full and systematic legalization of traffic safety and order; giving priority to the application of modern science and technology in management, supervision and handling of road traffic violations, limiting traffic violations; clearly defining the leading and responsible agency and the coordinating agency to ensure effectiveness, and avoiding overlapping or omitting management tasks.

Regarding this issue, Mr. Nao Thien Anh Minh, Deputy Head in charge of Traffic Safety Board said that the awareness and skills of a part of traffic participants are still limited. Violations of traffic safety and order is still popular; traffic accidents, traffic jams, and anti-law enforcement officials are very complicated. Therefore, the regulation of specific behaviors and contents will contribute to improving the quality of drivers of vehicles in traffic to reduce violations, accidents and traffic congestion.

Le Thu