Abstract
The traffic accident rate in Hochiminh city had been steadily increasing and had reached over an alarming level. Based on the big survey of all road accident data from 1999-2007 in Hochiminh city and the statistic analysis, the paper identified road accident trend, road safety problems which were a un-controlling in the rapid increase of motorized vehicles, a weak enforcement of traffic rules such as drunk drivers, excessive speeding, a very low level of road user perception, existing rule on lane assignment by vehicle type. Some measures were proposed to eliminate the hot traffic accident problem today in the study area.
