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Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI – Installing speed bumps and increasing the number of guards at rail crossings are among measures to reduce the number of railway accidents. The measures were proposed at a meeting held on Monday by the Transport Ministry following a sharp increase in the number of railway accidents during the week-long Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday that ended last week. The Việt Nam Railways Corporation (VR) reported that in just seven days (January 26 to February 1) eight railway accidents claimed six lives and injured 11. This was an increase of 60 per cent in the number of accidents, 100 per cent in fatalities and 175 per cent in the number of injured compared to the holiday last year. From January 1 to February 4, there were 43 railway accidents nationwide in which 19 people died and 38 were injured. Officials attending the meeting urged that speed bumps are installed at all rail crossings by the end of year, and to increase the number of guards at particularly accident-prone crossings. Vũ Tá Tùng, director of VRC, said localities should assign people to guard such areas round-the-clock, otherwise they would become a “trap”. “People often assume that…

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