The Ministry of Transport has just sent a document to the People's Committees of provinces and cities requesting to strengthen the implementation of tasks to ensure traffic safety for cars transporting students.
The document was issued after an incident in which a baby boy was left in a car and died in Thai Binh on May 29.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Transport requested the People's Committees of provinces and cities to direct the Department of Transport to coordinate with the Department of Education and Training to direct the review of schools that use contract cars to pick up and drop off students. At the same time, it requested transport businesses to strictly comply with the regulations on business and conditions for doing business in transport by car, especially the regulations on control plans to ensure that there are no passengers on the vehicle...
The Department of Education and Training presides over and coordinates with the functional forces of the transport sector and local authorities to regularly inspect educational institutions and schools that use cars to transport students.
The Ministry of Transport recommends that localities require all educational institutions (from preschool to high school) in the area that use cars to transport students to school to follow procedures and check the number of students when getting on and off the vehicle.
Coordinate with the parents' association to work with transport businesses, requiring full compliance with traffic safety regulations for vehicles and drivers. Absolutely do not sign contracts for transporting students with transport businesses that do not ensure the conditions for transporting by car.
Clearly state in the transportation contract between the educational institution and the transportation business the requirements and responsibilities of relevant organizations and individuals regarding traffic safety and protecting the health of students when sitting on the vehicle and when getting on and off the vehicle; on the vehicle there must be someone responsible for managing and checking the list of students, maintaining order and hygiene, and instructing and reminding students to follow safety regulations and skills when sitting on the vehicle and when getting on and off the vehicle.
Localities need to urgently direct functional forces to increase patrols, control, detect and strictly handle violations of the law in passenger transport activities, paying special attention to inspecting and handling violations of vehicles transporting students.
As for the People's Committee of Thai Binh province, where the incident of a child being left in a car leading to death occurred on May 29, the Ministry of Transport requested the province to direct the Department of Transport to conduct a comprehensive inspection of compliance with business regulations and conditions for passenger transport business by car for contract passenger transport businesses; strictly handle violations according to the law. At the same time, coordinate with relevant Departments of Transport to handle according to regulations for the transport business unit that caused the above incident.
The Ministry of Transport also assigned the Vietnam Road Administration to step up urging the Departments of Transport to implement legal regulations on business management and conditions for road transport business in localities, especially buses transporting students, pupils and workers. The Administration is also tasked with urging the Departments of Transport in localities to effectively exploit information from journey monitoring devices and cameras installed on cars.
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