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Traffic Accidents

It has been a while that we spoke about traffic accidents in Vietnam. The mandatory of wearing of helmets for motor bikers were introduced last year and what is the result? A total of 9,500 traffic accidents were registered during the first 3 months of 2008. Of course there must have been many more because [...]

October 27th, 2008 | Posted in accidents, Vietnam | No Comments

Vietnam’s Roads Claim Another Young Victim

This article was re-published with the permission of Greig Craft Losing our best and brightest Once in awhile, the nature of our work hits home in personal ways. It is no longer just a “statistic”. One of my ‘children’- a member of AIPF’s Helmets for Kids program – died in a motorcycle crash in HCMC during [...]

March 11th, 2008 | Posted in accidents, culture, Vietnam | No Comments