Yen Thanh: Seized nearly 40 homemade agricultural vehicles

Major Tang Van Long - Head of the Traffic Police Team of Yen Thanh District Police said: In addition to transporting construction materials, this type of vehicle also has the main function of plowing fields, but when participating in traffic, it violates traffic safety regulations, posing many potential risks of accidents.

Since September 2018, Yen Thanh District Police have focused on strictly handling cases of homemade farm vehicles that do not comply with conversion, restoring order to minimize unfortunate traffic accidents caused by farm vehicles.

Homemade farm vehicles were seized in Yen Thanh district. Photo: Van Truong

Up to this point, Yen Thanh District Police have seized nearly 40 homemade agricultural vehicles for violating road traffic safety regulations and are currently carrying out procedures to destroy these vehicles.

Yen Thanh district is continuing to coordinate with relevant localities and sectors to mobilize and propagate vehicle owners to seriously implement and voluntarily destroy agricultural vehicles and motor vehicles according to the provisions of law.

To support families with farm vehicles and modified vehicles to change careers after the “elimination” of farm vehicles, the Prime Minister issued Decision 548/QD-TTg dated April 29, 2009 on support for replacing farm vehicles, tractors, three-wheeled motor vehicles, and rudimentary vehicles that are subject to suspension from traffic. Accordingly, vehicle owners who change careers will be supported with 5 million VND, and vehicle owners who buy replacement vehicles will be supported with 9 million VND.