Driver fined, has driving license suspended for wrong-way travel on Vietnam expressway
Tuesday, July 02, 2024, 17:13 GMT+7
A patrol team from the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security’s Traffic Police Department said on Monday that it had seized a 16-seater passenger car as the driver steered it in the wrong direction on an expressway section in Nghe An Province, north-central Vietnam on Sunday.
He was fined VND17 million (US$668) and had his driver’s license suspended for six months.
At 8:00 am on Sunday, traffic police officers were patrolling on a section of the Dien Chau - Bai Vot Expressway when they found the car running against the flow of traffic, posing danger to other vehicles and people.
The traffic police officers asked the driver, a 50-year-old resident of Nam Dinh Province in northern Vietnam, to stop the car and confiscated the vehicle.
At the time, there were 13 passengers in the car, which was driving from Nam Dinh to Nghe An.
H. claimed to miss the exit ramp to National Highway 46B in Hung Nguyen District, Nghe An Province by 300-400 meters, so he decided to travel in the wrong direction to reach the ramp.
The 49-kilometer-long Dien Chau - Bai Vot Expressway was opened to traffic on Sunday.
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