Last updated: Sunday, January 15, 2012
Traffic accidents in VIetnam have claimed 183 lives and injured 126 people in the first two weeks of 2012, according to statistics from the country’s Road and Railway Traffic Police Department.
Among 205 accidents which occurred between January 1 and 14, three serious road accidents in Lam Dong, Quang...
Last updated: Monday, November 21, 2011
Speeding and handing the wheels over to unlicensed drivers is not uncommon practice among container truck drivers, an investigation finds
Rescuers carrying the body of a victim killed by an accident between a container truck and a bus that left 10 dead in Binh Thuan Province on...
Last updated: Friday, September 23, 2011
Mafia-esque bus transportation system a no-holds-barred race fraught with risk
Buses wait to pick up passengers on the road outside the Giap Bat Bus Station in Hanoi
It took 30 minutes for the bus to travel just one kilometer as it inched its way out of the My Dinh Terminal in...
Last updated: Tuesday, September 20, 2011
A traffic police officer stops trucks at a mountain pass in Ha Tinh Province on July 24. (Photo: Tuoi Tre)
Bribing traffic cops to get away with driving overloaded trucks or trucks carrying illegal products is common practice among drivers on highways and roads across the country.
A Tuoi Tre report says the situation is...
Last updated: Saturday, August 6, 2011
Increasing assaults on traffic cops indicate faults on both sides, senior official says
A still from a clip that shows Phuc (L), a mobile police officer, attacking Sergeant-Major Luan, a traffic cop who stopped the former for driving without a helmet
It...
Last updated: Monday, August 1, 2011
A photo from the clip shows Phuc, a police officer, attacking Sergeant-Major Luan, a traffic cop.
An unidentified traffic violator who was filmed attacking a traffic police officer on a Ho Chi Minh City street, last week, has been identified as Lieutenant Tran Dai Phuc of the HCMC Emergency Police Regiment.
A video clip...
Last updated: Saturday, July 16, 2011
Huynh Minh Duc, a traffic police officer in Binh Thanh District, HCMC, is accused of illegally releasing a motorbike from police custody.
Police in Ho Chi Minh City have ordered an investigation into allegations that a traffic officer illegally released a motorbike seized after its owner committed traffic violations, the Tuoi...
Last updated: Monday, May 2, 2011
A traffic patrolman pulls over a foreigner in the south-central beach town of Phan Thiet. Police have warned against an increase in traffic violations by foreign drivers in tourist hotspots, during the past few months.
Police in the beach towns of Phan Thiet and Vung Tau have decried a rising trend of serious accidents caused...
Last updated: Monday, December 20, 2010
A Thanh Nien investigation finds that official vehicles are above the law
An official vehicle known, as a “blue-plate”, dips into the motorbike lane on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, Ho Chi Minh City.
It’s Monday afternoon and a line of cars is inching forward slowly...
Last updated: Saturday, May 8, 2010
An angry crowd surrounded an accident site and burned a car of traffic police because they believed that the police caused the death of a young man.
VietNamNet Bridge – An angry crowd surrounded an accident site and burned a car of traffic police because they believed that the police caused the death of a young man.
Provincial...
