VEC E permanently refuses to serve 2 cars on the highway
Vietnam Expressway Engineering Services Joint Stock Company (VEC E) has just announced that it will permanently refuse to serve two cars on the highway it manages and operates.
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| Traffic congestion on Long Thanh Expressway in a recent traffic incident. |
Director of Vietnam Expressway Engineering Services Joint Stock Company (VEC E) Nguyen Viet Tan informed this morning that the unit has just decided to permanently refuse service to two vehicles with license plates 51A-55850 and 51G-77256 on all expressways managed and operated by VEC.
The reason is that these two vehicles violated the regulations under Decision 13/QD-VEC-HDTV dated January 10, 2019 on promulgating the Regulations on refusing to serve and re-serving vehicles that violate traffic rules when participating in expressways managed and operated by VEC E.
Specifically, at 6:20 p.m. on February 10 (the 6th day of the Lunar New Year), car with license plate 51A-55850 entered toll lane number 7, heading from Long Thanh to Ho Chi Minh City. When arriving at the toll booth, despite receiving a signal from the staff, the driver did not return the toll card and pay the toll but deliberately stopped at the toll lane. Many elderly people, women and children got out of the car, deliberately causing trouble here, attracting vehicles in other lanes, causing traffic congestion.
Vehicles with license plate 51C-78196 in lane 10 and 51G-77256 in lane 8 also had similar behavior. The staff at the toll station explained the above incidents that led to slow traffic on the route and invited them into the station's office area to explain in detail, to avoid affecting the traffic of other vehicles.
"The drivers of two vehicles with license plates 51A-55850 and 51G-77256 and their passengers did not comply with the traffic control officers' orders, damaged property, threatened to chase away the officers, caused congestion at the station, and disturbed security and order in the area," said Mr. Tan.
A representative of VEC E Company affirmed that the congestion from Km18 to Long Thanh bridge at Km12 towards Ho Chi Minh City on the 6th day of Tet was entirely due to the above objective incidents, not due to delays in toll collection activities causing congestion at the toll station, so the requests related to the station clearance are unreasonable and not in accordance with current regulations.
Previously, at 2:50 p.m. the same day, on the Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh expressway, a reed fire broke out in the safety corridor (cause unknown), at Km 14 in the direction from Long Thanh to Ho Chi Minh City.
The fire created smoke that lasted until 3:40 p.m., affecting the visibility of drivers and forcing vehicles to move slowly.
In addition, at 4:45 p.m., a collision occurred between car 51F-46117 and car 51D-04465 at Km 13+500 on Long Thanh bridge slope in the left direction from Long Thanh to Ho Chi Minh City. The accident caused one of the two cars to be severely damaged in the front and unable to move on its own.
Then at 5:50 p.m., a vehicle stalled on the slope of Long Thanh bridge on the left side of the route from Long Thanh to Ho Chi Minh City. At 6:10 p.m., at Km 11+200 on the left side of the route from Long Thanh to Ho Chi Minh City before toll lane number 12, a collision also occurred between a 16-seat vehicle with license plate 51B-20749 and a vehicle with license plate 51A-88160. The two drivers automatically stopped the vehicle, causing a scuffle, blocking other vehicles from entering the toll lane.