The Ministry of Public Security yesterday held a virtual meeting in Hanoi to summarize results of the focused period for inspecting and handling traffic safety violations in the past 3 months.
Traffic police took an examinee who had a puncture when he was on the way to a test site and an examiner who was stuck in a traffic jam on the way to a school for the High School Graduation exam.
The Ho Chi Minh City Police Department, on May 4, said that during the four days of the holiday of the Reunification Day and the International Labor Day, it recorded 17 criminal cases, a decrease of four cases compared to the same period in 2021.
In order to ensure traffic order during sports events marking the 47th anniversary of the Liberation of South Vietnam and National Reunification Day (April 30, 1975-2022) and the 136th anniversary of May Day (May 1), Vice Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport Vo Khanh Hung said that the unit will perform traffic adjustment through many streets in the city center.
The Department of Traffic Police under the Ministry of Public Security on April 15 launched a national traffic safety month in an effort to make travel safer for all.
Traffic police in central Quang Nam province and local officials in recent days have guided thousands of people from the southern provinces to their hometown on motorbikes.
Traffic police work relentlessly to ensure traffic safety during national holidays, said the Traffic Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security yesterday.
On March 26, 31-year-old Le Minh Thanh from Dong Nai Province told reporters he was driving his sister-in-law to a maternity hospital since she was expecting.
While yesterday conducting a nationwide intensive campaign to handle drug and alcohol concentration violations, traffic police forces penalized more than 7,000 drivers for blood alcohol content violations including two drug abuse motorcyclists.
Police in big cities said that they have fined nearly 15,000 DUI drivers after they simultaneously launched campaigns to handle violations including DUI (driving under the influence) violation in one-month long.
In Ho Chi Minh City, more and more foreigners have violated the traffic law, resulting in increase in accidents while local authorities are facing difficulties in punishing them despite many solutions.
Traffic police have kick-started a nationwide campaign to inspect coaches, passenger cars, container trucks and motorbikes in an effort to prevent serious accidents.
