The Decree on administrative sanctions for violations of traffic order and safety in the field of road traffic; deduction of points and restoration of driving license points will officially take effect from January 1, 2025.
According to the new decree, many violations have very high administrative penalties, focusing on groups of violations related to traffic rules violations on roads, including highways, and some groups of violations that are direct causes of traffic accidents.
In which, for cars:
Failure to comply with traffic light signals will be fined from 18 million VND to 20 million VND (old level was 4 million VND to 6 million VND).
Driving against the traffic on a one-way street or on a street with a "No Entry" sign will be fined 18 million - 20 million VND (old fine was 4 million - 6 million VND).
The act of opening a car door or leaving the car door open unsafely, causing a traffic accident, will be fined from 20 million VND to 22 million VND, a significant increase compared to the old fine of 400,000 VND to 600,000 VND.
Violations of alcohol concentration exceeding 50 milligrams to 80 milligrams/100 milliliters of blood or exceeding 0.25 milligrams to 0.4 milligrams/1 liter of breath will be fined from 18 million VND to 20 million VND, an increase of 2 million VND compared to the old fine.
In addition, there are many other acts with increased penalties, as follows:
For motorbikes, many violations have also had their penalties increased to create deterrence, such as: Failure to comply with traffic light signals (increased 5-6 times compared to the old level); Driving in the wrong direction (increased 3-4 times compared to the old level); Violating alcohol concentration levels also has increased penalties...
Details of the penalties under the new regulations are as follows:
According to a representative of the Traffic Police Department (Ministry of Public Security), the new decree was developed in the context of positive changes in traffic order and safety, and accidents being controlled.
However, in general, the traffic situation still has many problems such as the development of traffic infrastructure does not correspond to the demand, traffic organization still has many shortcomings; the number of vehicles increases every year with nearly 500,000 cars and about 2 million motorbikes...
