On September 27, the Kien Giang Provincial Civil Servants' Union and the Kien Giang Provincial Traffic Safety Committee Office launched the "Online contest to learn about traffic order and safety laws in 2024" among union members, civil servants, public employees, and workers at grassroots trade unions.
According to the Organizing Committee, the contest content includes: Current Road Traffic Law, traffic culture, solutions to ensure traffic safety and order, road sign system, regulations on administrative sanctions for violations in the field of road traffic, and handling of situations in traffic participation.
The contest is organized online, contestants answer multiple choice questions according to the pre-designed question set software. The question bank will have 120 questions randomly mixed by the software, in each test there are 20 questions in multiple choice format and 1 sub-question, the Organizing Committee provides 3-4 answers and only 1 correct answer. Contestants scan the QR code to do the test with a time limit of 15 minutes for each test.
The competition period is from 6:00 a.m. on September 30, 2024 to 12:00 p.m. on October 27, 2024, divided into 4 weeks, with the competition finalized and awarded in November 2024. There are expected to be collective prizes, including: 1 first prize, 1 second prize, 1 third prize and 2 consolation prizes; weekly prizes for individuals.
Launching the contest, Mr. Nguyen Quoc Hung, Chairman of the Kien Giang Provincial Civil Servants' Union, emphasized that the contest aims to propagate and disseminate the law, provide basic knowledge, improve understanding, sense of responsibility to comply with and abide by the law for cadres, union members, civil servants, public employees, and workers when participating in traffic. Thereby, strengthening the coordination of the trade union organization with functional agencies in the work of propagating, disseminating and educating the law for union members, civil servants, public employees, and workers, contributing to innovation and diversification of forms of propaganda to comply with the law on traffic safety in the current period.
According to the Traffic Safety Committee of Kien Giang province, the whole province has 27km of expressway management roads (currently operating at 80km/h), 292km of national highways, 57km of coastal corridor roads, 727km of provincial roads, 636km of district roads, 638km of urban roads and 6,542km of rural roads. The province is managing more than 1.48 million motorbikes, motorbikes and 56,354 cars of all kinds with 149 road transport routes.
From December 15, 2023 to September 14, 2024, there were 116 road traffic accidents in the province, with 53 deaths and 84 injuries; compared to the same period in 2023, the number of cases increased by 13%, the number of deaths decreased by 18% and the number of injuries increased by 2%.
