Police in Hanoi have dealt with nearly 2,000 overloaded vehicles and tightened control over the problem following a fatal accident last month.
Overloaded vehicle being pulled over
On October 5, the Road and Railway Traffic Police Division (PC67) said after a week tackling overloaded vehicles, they have dealt with 1,948 cases with 276 vehicles were seized and eight drivers had their licences withdrawn. The toll included 1,685 motorbikes, 200 cars and trucks and 36 three-wheeled motorbikes.
718 incidents involved the carrying of oversized goods, and 343 cases of towing or pushing other vehicles and 570 cases of overloading.
The police have set up more frequent checkpoints and patrols to deal with the problem.
Motorbikes, cyclos and makeshift three-wheel motorbikes being used to carry heavy and oversized goods are rampant and threatening traffic safety in Hanoi despite the ban.
Police have stepped up efforts to control the situation after a 9-year-old boy killed after colliding with steel sheets on a parked cyclo in September. Also in the same month, a woman was injured by metal sheets after a motorbike crashed into the group waiting for a bus.
