Chinanews.com, September 15th. According to the website of the Ministry of Emergency Management, recently, in accordance with the "Major Accident Investigation and Listing Supervision Measures" and other relevant regulations, the State Council’s Security Committee decided to impose "9·4" on Qitaihe in Heilongjiang and "9. ·5" Two major road traffic accident investigations and punishments are listed for supervision, requiring the people's governments of Heilongjiang, Anhui and other relevant regions to promptly organize accident investigations, find out the cause of the accident, and pursue related responsibilities in accordance with laws and regulations.
On September 4, 2021, a major accident occurred in Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province, in which a heavy-duty semi-trailer tractor collided with a tractor carrying migrant workers and farmers, resulting in 15 deaths and 1 injury.
On September 5, a major accident occurred in Anqing City, Anhui Province in which a pickup truck carrying Chashan migrant workers overturned and fell into a ravine, resulting in 12 deaths and 2 injuries.
After the accident, the leading comrades of the State Council attached great importance to the emergency response work, reducing casualties, further strengthening traffic safety management, investigating major hidden dangers, resolutely curbing the recurrence of major casualties, and effectively protecting the lives and property of the people.
Huang Ming, deputy director of the State Council’s Security Committee and head of the emergency management department, immediately dispatched a working group to the scene of the accident with relevant departments to guide the localities in handling and investigating the accident.
According to preliminary investigations, these two accidents exposed outstanding road traffic safety problems in rural areas such as truck speeding, overloading, and illegal manning, tractor driving without a license, and illegal manning.
The Office of the State Council Security Committee and the Emergency Management Department require all regions and relevant departments to effectively strengthen the safety of rural people’s travel. Encrypting the frequency of rural passenger transport lines and launching appointment services during key periods such as busy farming, returning to home and visiting relatives, etc., strive to ensure the travel needs of the people in key periods in rural areas.
Second, continue to increase road law enforcement and control, focusing on key sections such as national and provincial highways passing through villages and towns, rural roads, key periods such as "one morning and one evening", busy farming markets, and trucks, agricultural vehicles, passenger vehicles, vans, and pickup trucks. Vehicles, comprehensive investigation and rectification of "illegal occupation of roads" and "road market" safety hazards, strict investigation and punishment of illegal manning, fatigue driving, speeding, overloading, unlicensed and unlicensed behavior.
Third, in response to the apparent increase in "compensatory" trips for the people on the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, the increasing demand for highway passenger transportation, tourist passenger transportation, carpooling and chartered vehicles, and the prone to high incidence of various illegal activities, increase the number of passengers in rural areas. Enforcement inspections on roads around stations and tourist attractions, and at the same time strengthen traffic safety publicity and education, actively guide rural people to increase their awareness of safe travel, consciously choose legal and compliant transportation, and refuse to take illegal vehicles, trucks, agricultural vehicles and other transportation tools Travel.