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Vietnamese police launches bus inspection, violations abound 4th June 2008
Traffic policemen in the central region have uncovered many violations
on the first day of the month-long inspection on bus operations which
has been implemented nationwide. In Quang Nam Province, traffic police
reported 80 percent of buses were overloaded or exceeded speed limits on
Sunday. In the span of one hour on Sunday afternoon, nearly 10 buses
were punished for driving in the wrong lanes, overloading and violating
other regulations as they traveled on National Highway 1A through Da
Nang City. Da Nang City traffic police chief Nguyen Den said the
municipality had set up five traffic patrol teams to scrutinize bus
operations at major intersections and roads. Nguyen Thanh Ba, head of
the Kim Lien traffic patrol team, said his team had performed checks on
18 buses on Sunday morning, three of which were penalized.
A driver whose bus carries passengers between Da Nang and Quang Nam said
he was punished for ferrying goods and having inoperative windshield
wipers on Sunday afternoon. Last month, he had to pay fines for
overloading. He said he had to carry more passengers or transport goods
to cover high fuel costs. Thua Thien-Hue Province’s road and railway
traffic police chief Nguyen Ngoc Dong said officers had meted out
penalties on 22 cases with total fines costing more than VND19 million
(US$1,100) on Sunday.
In the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, traffic policemen also
inspected buses traveling on National Highway 1A, but admitted that bus
drivers had many “tips” to avoid being penalized. For instance, upon
passing traffic cops, drivers make signs for those driving in the
opposite direction to slow down below the speed limit. Other drivers
still maintained high speeds, but hid behind trucks so that they
wouldn’t be caught by traffic camera devices. On Sunday, Trung Luong
traffic control station in the Mekong Delta punished around 10
passenger-vans for exceeding the speed limit by 10-20 kilometers per
hour.
Source:TNN
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