The Government of Vietnam has declared its commitment to the United Nations (UN) road crash prevention goals and has been selected to launch a five-continent initiative organized by the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety.<\/p>\n
The Vietnamese government has committed to: 1) increase helmet wearing rates among children of Vietnam to over 80% by 2030; 2) enforce compliance of quality helmets and ban all counterfeit helmets that do not meet technical requirements; 3) ensure successful implementation of the 3-year road safety action plan which includes the Global Road Safety Performance Targets; and 4) present these commitments in Stockholm in 2020.<\/p>\n
At a Round the World Roundtable<\/em> the Government of Vietnam handed over a symbolic baton to UN Special Envoy Jean Todt to signify the country\u2019s commitments.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is essential to increase the uptake of helmet use,\u201d said Todt. \u201cWearing a quality helmet has been proven to reduce drastically the risk of death and serious injury in the event of a crash. At the same time, it is essential to ensure that helmets available on the market meet acceptable safety standard to protect lives.\u201d<\/p>\n AIP Foundation Founder and President Greig Craft added: \u201cThe impact of head trauma on children and families remains a global health \u2018epidemic\u2019. The Government of Vietnam\u2019s commitment is commendable and sets an example for other countries.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Government of Vietnam has declared its commitment to the United Nations (UN) road crash prevention goals and has been selected to launch a five-continent initiative organized by the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety. The Vietnamese government has committed to: 1) increase helmet wearing rates among children of Vietnam to over 80% by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":8478,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}