On December 26, 2024, the Government issued Decree 168/2024/ND-CP regulating administrative sanctions for violations of traffic order and safety in the field of road traffic; deduction of points and restoration of driving license points, effective from January 1, 2025.
With direct impact on people, information and content about Decree 168 have been searched a lot on the Internet.
According to data shared by Coc Coc browser on January 13, the number of searches began to increase from December 30, 2024 and the level of interest peaked on January 2, 2025 with 120,000 searches, then gradually decreased but remained higher than before the effective date.
This sudden increase shows that people are concerned and are carefully studying the form of "cold fines" in the context of Decree 168 being officially applied, especially when it comes to deducting and restoring driving license points.
Statistics show that 1 week after Decree 168 took effect, the average number of daily searches for "cold fines" increased by 328.2% compared to the average of the previous week.
Vietnamese users are interested in 4 groups of topics about the Decree from general information, overview; about fines, fine payment; traffic laws, traffic safety and about driving licenses/permits.
From January 1 to 8, 2025, information about traffic safety fines increased by 144% compared to the previous week.
The most searched keywords during this time are "Decree 168", "Decree 168 traffic fines", "traffic fines 2025", "motorcycle fines 2025"...
During the period from December 26, 2024 to January 8, 2025, nearly 13 million news and article impressions containing content related to Decree 168/2024/ND-CP from electronic newspapers and magazines were displayed on Coc Coc News Feed.
On this browser for Vietnamese users, there were nearly 800,000 visits to news sites reporting on Decree 168. Of which, the number of visits from Coc Coc News Feed alone reached nearly 300,000.
