After the Lunar New Year break, traffic violations tend to be on the increase in Da Nang. In a great attempt to ensure traffic order and safety, the local traffic police force has continued to speed up conducting surprise inspections, checks and handling cases that go against the national Road Traffic Law.

The Da Nang traffic police force strengthens inspection and handling of violations after the Lunar New Year break to ensure traffic order and safety in the city. Photo: VIET THANH

According to Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Ba Cuong, Station Head of Hoa Hai Gate Traffic Police Station under the Traffic Police Division of the Da Nang Police Department, a fine of VND 500,000 and a 2-month driving license suspension shall be levied to any cases of going in the wrong lane.

“In order to restore traffic order and safety, we resolutely deal with intentional violations, besides reminding people who do not know about the use of lane divisions and frontage roads,” Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Ba Cuong said.

In addition to raising the awareness of traffic rule compliance amongst road users, the local traffic police force is taking effective measures to handle the problem of overloaded vehicles carrying soil, stones, sand or construction materials operating around the clock surreptitiously on such heavily trafficked suburban roads.

Also, in order to ensure the traffic safety, vehicles must carry loads within their limits, and they should not exceed the speed limits.

In particular, it is a must-do to carefully cover the loads on the trucks with sheeting to prevent spillage of materials on public roads.

Meanwhile, according to Lieutenant Colonel Pham Hong Hai, Head of the Hoa Nhon Gate Traffic Police Station under the Traffic Police Division of the Da Nang Police Department, since the start of this lunar new year break, his unit has detected and handled 14 traffic violation cases, many of them were related to passenger overload.

Apart from detecting overloaded passenger cars, the unit also caught red-handed and levy hefty fines on 37 cases of dump trucks committing violations of the law on traffic order and safety.

Colonel Phan Ngoc Truyen, Head of the Traffic Police Division of the Da Nang Police Department said: “In order to ensure the peak traffic order and safety before and after the Tet break, my agency has mobilized maximum forces, specialised vehicles and technical equipment and synchronously deployed effective measures to step up patrols, and promote the handling of violations in roadways, railways and inland waterways”.

In the coming time, the local traffic police force will stay firm on strengthening patrols to handle passenger cars and vehicles carrying construction materials that violate the law on traffic order and safety, especially cases of failure to properly secure and balance truck loads and other trucking weight violations.

In addition to maintaining the operation of the fixed checkpoints, the functional forces will strengthen special task groups to regularly patrol and promptly stop the subjects of intentionally racing in the wrong lane, exceeding the speed limits, running through the red light, and illegally parking or picking up and dropping off passengers.

Anyone who is found committing traffic violations will have to pay for their traffic tickets or be subjected to penalties without reprieve. The punishment is conducted in the spirit of respecting laws and law equality among all citizen.

Effective since January 1, 2022 and with the aim of enhancing road traffic safety, Viet Nam’s national government’s Decree No. 123 dated December 28, 2021 comes with new traffic fines and violation penalties you should be cautious of, as most of these fines have been increased by a large margin!

Reporting by VIET THANH – Translating by A.THU