"Clearing the way" for the bride
(Baonghean) - More than a week ago, during a trip to visit some veteran friends in Dien Chau district, I witnessed a "strange thing" happening on National Highway 1A - from Dien An commune to Dien Thinh. At around 12 noon, a series of cars traveling from the South to the North, when passing through Dien An commune, had to crawl behind a wedding car (4-seater type) traveling in the same direction with the "escort" of a group of motorbikes driven by bare-headed young men without helmets, carrying 3 or 4 people, weaving in and out, aggressively waving sticks to prevent any car from passing the wedding car. Not only blocking cars in the same direction, these young men driving motorbikes also lined up across the road, screaming, and using fireworks as sticks to drive straight into the heads of cars going in the opposite direction, forcing these cars to stop on the side of the road to let the wedding procession pass.
The motorbike with license plate 37-B1 -654.41 directly waved its stick, encroached on the lane with the group of vehicles (license plate has been enlarged) blocking the convoy of trucks going in the opposite direction.
Seeing me using my camera to record the scene of motorbikes blocking oncoming buses, a taxi driver said: “This is not the first time that car drivers passing through this section of the road have encountered such a dangerous traffic jam!? When encountering such reckless people, car drivers have no choice but to accept “crawling” on the road and waiting until these reckless people who disregard the rules turn onto a side road before continuing to drive normally.”
Indeed, only after the escort group... waved their sticks to make the flower car turn left on the western branch of National Highway 1A (the first section of Dien Thinh commune)..., were cars on both sides of the road allowed to continue to travel on the correct side of the road, at the correct speed.
That afternoon, I heard from some veteran friends in Dien Chau: “This kind of road blocking has been punished by the police force. However, because the violations take place on a road section far from the district center, they are not always detected and prevented in time.”
LE BA DUONG
