Driver who ran over and killed a traffic police major gets 6 years in prison

Seeing the driver get in the car and close the door, the police major jumped up and grabbed the rearview mirror, fell to the ground and was run over by a truck and died.

On July 5, the People's Court of Bien Hoa City (Dong Nai) opened a mobile trial and sentenced defendant Tran Manh Thong (25 years old, from Ha Tinh) to 6 years in prison for the crime of Resisting a person on official duty.

Defendant Tran Manh Thong at trial

According to the indictment of the People's Procuracy, on April 15, the Road and Railway Traffic Police Department (PC68) of Dong Nai Provincial Police assigned Major Le Quang Minh and two traffic police officers of the Department to patrol and control traffic on National Highway 1A (section passing through An Binh ward).

At about 7 p.m. the same day, Thong drove a 60C-10.762 truck carrying pigs that exceeded the load capacity by more than 1.6 tons in the direction from Long Thanh district to Dong Nai bridge. When arriving at the Vung Tau intersection, Thong's vehicle was detected by Major Minh's patrol team for signs of violation, so they signaled to stop the vehicle for inspection, but the defendant did not comply and continued to accelerate and flee.

Seeing this, Major Minh asked a local to drive him after the driver and stop him. When he got near the Dong Nai bridge toll station, Major Minh overtook him and forced Thong to stop. After that, Thong got out of the car but did not show his papers and argued with police officer Minh before getting back in the car and continuing.

Major Minh ran after Thong and jumped up with a flashlight, grabbing the rearview mirror and demanding that Thong stop the car. While chasing him, Major Minh fell to the ground and was run over by the rear wheel of the truck, killing him instantly.

Also at the trial, the representative of the People's Procuracy asked the presiding judge to read the record of unsealing the camera system installed at the Dong Nai bridge toll station to verify the incident. In the record presented by the presiding judge at the trial, while climbing into the cabin of Thong's car, Major Minh used a flashlight to hit the rearview mirror, breaking it.

Major Minh’s family also requested Thong and the car owner to compensate for the damage of nearly 350 million VND. The defendant Thong’s family has compensated the victim’s family with 100 million VND./.

According to VOV