The Ministry of Public Security is drafting a Decree regulating penalties for administrative violations of traffic order and safety in the field of road traffic; Point deduction, driving license points restored.
According to the Ministry of Public Security, the Draft Decree stipulates that driving license point deduction is not a form of sanction for administrative violations; For violations that have resulted in points being deducted from the driver's license, the penalty of revocation of the right to use the driver's license will not be applied.
Regarding the content of driver's license points deduction, the draft Decree stipulates 189 behaviors and groups of behaviors subject to driver's license point deductions.
There are 28 behaviors, the group of behaviors with 12 points deducted, including: Driving a vehicle on the road with an alcohol concentration in the blood or breath exceeding 80 milligrams/100 milliliters of blood or exceeding 0.4 milligrams/1 liter of blood. liters of breathing air; driving a vehicle on the road with drugs in the body;
Driving a cargo vehicle exceeding the allowable traffic load recorded in the vehicle's technical safety and environmental protection inspection certificate by more than 150%; Illegal racing, swerving, swinging, speeding over 35km/h.
According to the Ministry of Public Security, these are intentional, dangerous violations with a high risk of causing traffic accidents and destroying traffic works...
Data on points, deduction of points, and restoration of driving license points are stored in the database system on handling administrative violations of traffic order and safety and deduction of driving license points; Deduction of points and restoration of driving license points are automatically performed on the database system.
The Ministry of Public Security believes that the regulation on deducting points from a driving license has both a deterrent and an educational and motivating nature to comply with the law on road traffic order and safety, each time a person is caught. Deducting points acts as a warning "bell" to help drivers comply with the law better.
The driving license has not had all its points deducted, the driver can continue to drive the vehicle in traffic, without affecting traffic activities, production and business activities, and people's lives. That ensures the humaneness and humanitarianism of Vietnamese law and the rights of citizens specified in the Constitution.
Currently, the Government Electronic Information Portal has posted the full text of the Draft Decree and requested domestic and foreign agencies, organizations and individuals to study and provide comments.
According to the provisions of the Law on Road Traffic Order and Safety, effective from January 1, 2025, each driver's license has 12 points, used to manage the observance of laws on road traffic order and safety. of the driver on the driver's license management database system.
