Interior Minister Urges Increased Education, Dissemination and Strict Law Enforcement to Reduce Traffic Accidents

Phnom Penh: Deputy Prime Minister Sar Sokha, Minister of Interior and Chairman of the National Committee for Road Safety (NCRC), is concerned about the well-being and lives of people who have been injured and lost their lives. Due to regular traffic accidents.

On the occasion of chairing a meeting to review the results of road traffic safety work for the first 9 months of 2024 of the NCC on November 26, 2024 at the meeting hall of Samdech Krala Hom Sar Kheng of the Ministry of Interior, Deputy Director Minister Sar Sokha noted that there are two main factors that lead to traffic accidents: human factors and vehicle factors.

In this regard, the Deputy Prime Minister instructed and urged the authorities to increase education, dissemination, quality control of vehicles and strictly enforce the law on road traffic to those who cause traffic accidents in all cases. Let go of the law to reduce traffic accidents and continue to push for the implementation of the 2024 Action Plan of the NCCC in the spirit of high responsibility in accordance with the high recommendations of Samdech Thibodi Hun Manet, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

At the same time, the Deputy Prime Minister praised the leaders at all levels, including the road traffic police, public works and transport officials, the military police, officials of the Ministry of Justice, officials of the Ministry of Information, officials of the Ministry of Health, officials of relevant institutions, journalists. The private sector and a large number of people who have actively worked to fulfill the road safety work and participate in the implementation of the law on road traffic to work on road safety in the first half. 2024 has achieved positive results in the implementation of the Royal Government’s road safety policy and the action plan of the NCDD.

The Deputy Prime Minister emphasized that in the new context of the first nine months of 2024, the NCDD has continued to actively promote the work and achieve proud results, including significant achievements, including Actively implement the National Road Safety Decade 2021-2030, strengthen leadership mechanisms at all levels, continue to tighten law enforcement, continue to educate the law, draft the law on New road traffic, continuous efforts to modernize digital systems, manage data systems, traffic safety, continue to build and repair road infrastructure, increase national and international relations in the field of traffic safety.

Please be reminded that according to the comparative report in 2023, the number of traffic accidents has decreased significantly, although the increase in the use of vehicles has increased and caused more traffic on the roads. Decreased 197 times, equal to 8% (2230/2427 times), the number of deaths was 15,158, the same as before, and the number of injured decreased by 307, equal to 9% (2962/3269) compared to the same period last year. 2023. Although the number of traffic accidents has decreased, the death toll has not decreased.