Titled “Goodyear Highway Hero 2008,” the program will allow drivers to share their experiences and will encourage them to help others involved in road accidents.
It will also provide drivers with helpful information on weather and traffic conditions through two radio channels – the Voice of HCMC People and the Hanoi Radio Station.
“We hope to help decrease road accidents and raise drivers’ [awareness for] a caring community by helping others,” said Ron Castro, Goodyear Asia Pacific’s Director for Communications.
Organizers also granted the award of “Goodyear Highway Hero 2007” to Phan Tan Hung – a driver for a private transport service in Binh Duong Province.
Hung saved two drowning children beside a road in Ba Ria- Vung Tau Province last year.
Globally, road traffic accidents kill an estimated 1.2 million people and injure or disable up to 50 million people each year, causing material losses of at least US$500 billion, according to statistics by the United Nations Economics and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).
UNESCAP also reports that Asia has the worst traffic safety record in the world, with half a million people dying and nearly 30 million injured in road accidents in 2007, at an economic cost of around $100 billion.
Traffic accidents have killed over 3,000 people in Vietnam in the first quarter of 2008, according to NCTS’s statistics.
Reported by Minh Hung |
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