On July 20, the Department of Transport of Binh Thuan province said it had coordinated to handle cases of passenger buses carrying too many people on board. Previously, the hotline of the Department of Transport of Binh Thuan province received calls from people reporting that passenger cars with Da Nang license plates were circulating on Highway 1 through the province crammed with passengers.
After checking the vehicle's journey monitoring data, the Inspector of the Department of Transport of Binh Thuan province coordinated with the Department's professional department, Traffic Police Team No. 2 - Traffic Police Department, Public Security Binh Thuan province stopped the vehicle.
At the time of inspection, this bus was running the route Tanh Linh, Binh Thuan to Da Nang, with 51 passengers on board while there were only 43 seats. The authorities have issued a record of administrative sanctions against THAT driver for the act of "Driving a passenger car on a route greater than 300km with 5 or more people on board." over 30 seats" with a fine of 12 million VND and revocation of Driver's License.
At the same time, make a record of administrative sanctions against this company that operates the passenger car business for the act of "Giving the vehicle to the driver to commit the violation specified in Clause 4, Article 23." with a fine of 24 million VND.
After making a record, the authorities requested the bus company to arrange other vehicles to carry the number of passengers exceeding the limit.