Fine for 45-seat passenger bus carrying 74 passengers

Team 5 - Criminal Police Department, Hanoi City Police just coordinated with the Southern Bus Station Management Board to administratively inspect a passenger bus with license plate 36B 007.72, a 45-seat vehicle, but at that time the vehicle was carrying 74 passengers.

Driver Le Van Thoi, born in 1971, permanent resident of Vinh Tien commune, Vinh Loc district, Thanh Hoa province, confessed that due to the high demand for travel during Tet, Thoi arranged additional plastic chairs on the floor of the car to pick up more passengers to earn extra income.

Thoi added that whenever he saw police on the road, the bus company would signal the passengers sitting on the floor of the bus to bend down to avoid being detected as being overloaded.

The bus was carrying more people than the limit.

According to the reporter's observation, at the time of inspection, passengers were crammed tightly together, lying scattered on the floor of the bus, with no way to walk. The authorities have drawn up an administrative fine against the above passenger bus.

Passengers sitting crowded on the floor of the bus

The investigation agency also warned that passenger buses running long routes to the provinces should not take risks to earn a few extra dollars in profit, cramming more passengers onto the bus than allowed, to avoid unfortunate accidents during Tet.

According to Capital Security