Traffic police officers said on Friday that they fined a truck driver VND17 million (US$725) for driving on the wrong side of the newly-opened Phan Thiet-Dau Giay Expressway in southern Vietnam.

The penalty, which also includes a six-month driver’s license revocation, was imposed on N.T.D., a 52-year-old native of Dong Nai Province.

D. drove the truck numbered 60C-542.91 on the Phan Thiet-Dau Giay Expressway in the direction from Phan Thiet to Dong Nai, but on the lane used for traveling vice versa on Wednesday afternoon.

D.’s truck wrong-way driving next to the road divider startled many drivers traveling in the correct way.

He was thus slapped with a fine of VND17 million and has his driver’s license revoked for six months.

Traffic police officers are also verifying another case where a driver steered a seven-seater car wrong way on the same expressway at 5:56 pm on Wednesday.

On Thursday, they fined a pickup truck driver for driving on the wrong side of the route. The driver made “not knowing the right way” as the excuse for his traffic safety violation.

The 99-kilometer Phan Thiet-Dau Giay Expressway was opened to traffic last weekend. 

The route starts from an intersection with the Vinh Hao-Phan Thiet Expressway running through Ham Thuan Nam District in Binh Thuan Province and ends at an intersection with the Ho Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway passing through Thong Nhat District in Dong Nai Province.

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