Peak of handling students violating traffic laws in Hai Duong

Batch processing

One day at the end of April, a working group of the Traffic Police and Public Order Team of Ninh Giang District Police was on patrol duty on Provincial Road 392, in Hong Duc Commune, when they discovered VHT, a 12th grade student at Hong Duc High School, who had committed two violations: riding a motorbike with a cylinder capacity of over 50 cm3 while underage and not wearing a helmet. The working group drew up a report with student T. under the witness of a school teacher. T. was fined 750,000 VND, and T.'s father was fined 1.4 million VND for handing over the motorbike to an unqualified person. The traffic police sent a notice of T.'s violations to the school.

According to the Traffic Police and Order Team, from the beginning of 2024 until now, Ninh Giang District Police have recorded 172 cases of students violating traffic laws, fined 105.95 million VND, temporarily detained 38 motorbikes, 51 motorbikes, 72 electric motorbikes, electric bicycles. Of which, 159 cases were not wearing helmets, 48 ​​cases were underage to drive, 2 cases were speeding, 30 cases were vehicle owners who handed over the vehicle, allowing their children to drive the vehicle when they were underage...

In recent years, especially at the beginning of the new school year, the traffic police force of Ninh Giang district has coordinated with the education sector to disseminate the Road Traffic Law to students of schools in the area. The district has organized the implementation of Directive 31 of the Prime Minister on strengthening traffic order and safety for school-age children to departments, branches, organizations, Chairmen of People's Committees of communes and towns, school principals and representatives of parents of students of schools...

With the special feature of National Highway 5 and the Hanoi - Hai Phong railway running through, the traffic volume on National Highway 5 is very large, so the traffic accident situation in Kim Thanh district has many complicated developments, causing extremely unfortunate consequences. In many cases, the victims are students. Recently, Kim Thanh District Police have increased patrols, controls, and strictly handled cases of students violating traffic laws, combined with propaganda and dissemination of traffic laws to raise students' awareness of compliance. Officers of the Traffic Police and Order Team of Kim Thanh District Police have coordinated propaganda and organized commitment signing at 60 schools in the district. From the beginning of the year to May 10, the traffic police force of the District Police has handled 79 cases of students violating traffic order and safety, fining more than 40 million VND with the main violations being not wearing helmets and driving motorbikes over 50cc when underage.

Lieutenant Colonel Bui Tien Hai, Head of the Traffic Police and Order Team, Kim Thanh District Police, said that in cases where students violate traffic laws, the traffic police force will invite parents to work, impose penalties for the violation of giving vehicles to underage drivers, and send a notice to the school. “When students violate, the greatest responsibility still belongs to the parents. Each parent needs to set an example and regularly remind their children to strictly comply with the provisions of the Road Traffic Law,” Lieutenant Colonel Bui Tien Hai emphasized.

Increase accountability

On April 26, Ms. Vu Thi Th., born in 1985, in Tuan Viet commune (Kim Thanh) was also fined for giving her motorbike to someone who did not meet the required conditions. Knowing that her child was not old enough to ride a motorbike over 50 cm3, Ms. Th. still let her child ride the motorbike because she loved and pampered her child.

The traffic police’s tough handling of violations related to student age has received support from students, teachers and their families. Many parents no longer arbitrarily hand over motorbikes to their underage children.

Handling students who violate traffic safety is not an overnight task but will be carried out regularly with a spirit of strict handling to form the habit of obeying traffic laws for students.

In the first quarter of 2024, the provincial police force organized propaganda on culture and traffic skills at 509 schools, with the participation of 238,055 students and teachers. Organized the signing of commitments to comply with regulations on traffic order and safety at 599 schools for over 143,000 cases; maintained the operation of 639 "Safe School Gate" models. During the same period, there were 46 traffic accidents involving students, killing 12 children and injuring 46 children; an increase of 34 cases, 7 deaths and 31 injuries compared to the same period in 2023. The traffic police force detected and recorded 742 cases of students violating traffic laws, of which 130 cases were warned, and 437 notices were sent to schools. The main violations are not wearing helmets, not following traffic control officers' instructions, not following traffic lights, weaving...