Responding to “Traffic Safety Month, September 2021”
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Recently, the Ministry of Education and Training issued Official Letter No. 3678/BGDĐT-GDCTHSSV dated August 27, 2021 on strengthening the propaganda and education of the law to ensure traffic order and safety in the school year 2021- 2022.
In order to raise awareness, responsibility and effectively enforce the law provisions on ensuring traffic order and safety in the school year 2021-2022. At the same time, strengthening propaganda work in response to “Traffic month of traffic safety, September 2021” Vo Truong Toan University actively implemented to all managers, teachers and employees. Actively and students strictly follow the regulations on not drinking alcohol before driving vehicles in traffic, regulations on wearing helmets and obeying traffic rules.
1. Regulations on not drinking alcohol before driving a vehicle in traffic
Prohibited conduct
The act of drinking alcohol before driving a vehicle in traffic is considered a prohibited act according to the provisions of Clause 6, Article 5 of the Law on Prevention and Control of Harmful Effects of Alcohol and Beer 2019. Specifically, regulations It clearly states that “driving a vehicle with alcohol in the blood or breath”. In addition, Article 21 of this Law also stipulates that “Drivers of vehicles participating in traffic must not drink alcohol before and while participating in traffic”.
Drunk, beer do not drive
Harms and consequences of drinking alcohol and beer before driving a vehicle in traffic
Using alcohol before driving a vehicle in traffic not only affects the health and life of the user, but also has consequences and burdens on the family and society.
Regardless of whether the blood alcohol concentration is high or low, driving a vehicle after drinking alcohol is an extremely dangerous and illegal act. Alcohol will affect the central nervous system, causing hallucinations, distraction, impaired ability to control traffic, very easy to cause problems, specifically:
– Slow reflexes: Alcohol will make the brain process information slowly, conditioned reflexes will also decline, increasing the risk of a collision when an unexpected situation occurs.
– Reduced concentration: One of those safe driving skills is to focus, not to be distracted to avoid collision incidents. However, if there is alcohol in the body, your ability to concentrate will decrease, so the risk of an accident is high.
– Decreased vision: Alcohol in the body makes your ability to concentrate and eyesight decrease and easily causes traffic accidents.
– Impaired judgment: The ability to judge when driving plays a very important role, they help you to handle dangerous situations when driving a vehicle. However, the stimulants in alcohol and beer will reduce the ability to judge, prone to crashes when driving.
Using alcohol and beer before driving a vehicle in traffic is also the leading cause of many accidents not only for the users themselves, but also for other road users. other.
2. Regulations on wearing helmets and obeying traffic rules
a) Regulations on wearing helmets
Please wear a helmet when participating in traffic
The Road Traffic Law 2008 has a number of regulations on helmet wearing as follows:
– In Clause 2, Article 30, it is stipulated that “Drivers and people sitting on two-wheeled motorbikes, three-wheeled motorbikes and mopeds must wear helmets with proper straps”.
– In Clause 2, Article 31, it is stipulated that “Drivers and occupants of motorcycles must wear helmets with proper straps”.
According to the provisions of Clause 2, Article 8 of the Joint Circular 06/2021/TTLT-BKHCN-BCT-BCA-BGTVT, the helmet straps are specified as follows:
– Pull the helmet straps to the sides and then put on the hat and close the helmet buckle. The hat must not be loose, but must close tightly to the chin;
– After wearing the helmet, it should be checked by: pulling the hat from the back to the front with your hand or lifting the upper part of the forehead (or the chin part for a full jaw hat) and then pulling it back, the hat must not be worn. pop out of the head.
Consequences of not wearing a helmet when participating in traffic
Not strictly implementing the wearing of helmets or wearing poor quality hats and not following the rules when participating in traffic are the main causes of traffic accidents, most of which are left behind. severe sequelae. Typically, the situation of severe emergency cases, traumatic brain injury, deformed facial parts, the most severe cases can lead to death. This consequence not only directly affects the victim, but also affects relatives, family and society with tragic endings.
According to data published by the Ministry of Health, wearing a helmet when participating in traffic reduces the possibility of injury by 69% and the possibility of death by up to 42%. For those who do not wear helmets when participating in traffic, the risk of traumatic brain injury is 4 times higher. This risk increases tenfold in cases of traffic accidents.
b) Obey traffic rules
Observance of traffic rules shall comply with the provisions of Article 9 of the Law on Road Traffic 2008 as follows:
– People in traffic must go on the right in their direction, stay in the correct lane and section of the road, and must obey the road signal system.
– If a car is equipped with a seat belt, the driver and the person sitting in the front row of the car must wear a seat belt.
3. Propaganda in response to “Traffic month of traffic safety, September 2021”
Accordingly, Vo Truong Toan University propagated in response to “Traffic safety peak, September 2021” with some specific contents as follows:
– Implement measures to ensure traffic order and safety at the school gate area; coordinate with relevant local departments and agencies to continue building the model of “traffic safety school gate”.
– Place a speed limit sign in the school area; inspect, review and organize traffic at the University appropriately to ensure the absolute safety of life and property of administrators, teachers, employees and students.
– Strengthen the responsibility of security guards in managing, covering, promptly reminding and guiding vehicles participating in traffic on school grounds in accordance with regulations and a number of other activities.
Vo Truong Toan University actively carries out propaganda work, thoroughly grasping the strict implementation of the provisions of the law on traffic safety. In particular, the regulations on not drinking alcohol before driving a vehicle in traffic, regulations on wearing helmets and obeying traffic rules to raise awareness and sense of self-discipline to obey the law. laws of all staff, teachers, employees and students of the University. At the same time, ensure compliance with regulations and requirements for Covid-19 prevention and control.
