This year's Lunar New Year holiday is from January 25, 2025 to February 2, 2025. Accordingly, the list of fines announced by some provinces includes vehicles violating this time.
The Traffic Police Department of Ba Ria - Vung Tau Police has just announced a list of 160 cases of fines from January 16 to January 31. Among these, there are many vehicles that violated during Tet (in the red box) as follows:
Previously, Vinh Phuc Provincial Police also announced the list of fines from January 11 to 25, 2025. Accordingly, January 25 is the first day of Tet holiday, with many vehicles being fined (in the red box) as follows:
The police note that from January 1, 2025, the Law on Road Traffic Safety and Order, Decree 168/2024/ND-CP regulating administrative sanctions for violations of road traffic safety and order; deduction of points, and restoration of driving license points will come into effect.
Accordingly, some violations of road traffic safety have had fines increased sharply compared to before, such as car drivers running red lights will be fined 18-20 million VND (old fine was 4-6 million VND), and motorbike drivers running red lights will be fined 4-6 million VND (old fine was 800,000 VND to 1 million VND).
The police require violators to go to the police headquarters where the fine was discovered or to the district police where they reside to resolve the violation according to regulations.
After 20 days from the date of sending the notice of violation, if the violator does not come to the Police to resolve the violation or the Police have not received the notice of the resolution and handling results from the District Police where the violator resides, the Police will update information on the violating vehicle on the Electronic Information page of the Traffic Police Department and send a warning notice to the vehicle inspection agency (for vehicles required to be inspected).
The police recommend that people continue to raise their awareness of voluntarily complying with traffic laws, for their own safety and the safety of others.
