The People’s Court in Binh Thanh District in HCM City yesterday sentenced Nguyen Thi Nga to three and a half years in prison for “violating regulations on road safety” which resulted in a car crash that killed one woman and injured six men.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A resident of Hanoi’s outer district of Chuong My has been providing ambulance services for his neighbours and strangers for the past 20 years.

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The National Traffic Safety Commission will coordinate with the Beverage Association to develop a new model of alcoholic beverage selling points that would offer unique services for intoxicated people to ensure traffic safety in big cities.

 VietNamNet Bridge – It was good news for Mr. Hau, the driver in the beer looting case in Dong Nai province, that the beer company did not ask him to pay compensation for the beer.

 From July 1 the vehicles that do not have monitoring device or the black box will be fined from VND2 to VND3 million. The transportation enterprises with 20% of vehicles breaking the rules on speed will have their business licenses revoked.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Allowed entering Vietnam, many Cambodian buses offer free services for Vietnamese to gamble in Cambodia, said a HCM City police official.

VietNamNet Bridge – Up to 70 percent of traffic accidents are related to motorcycles and mopeds and 30 percent of the victims suffer from brain damage leading to death. Some 72 of people on the road wear substandard helmets.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi police have detected the largest-ever iPhones smuggling case, seizing over 500 iPhones 4, hidden in a secret box on a bus.

By the end of March, the Road Maintenance Fund collected more than VND1 trillion ($50 million) of road maintenance fees of automobile owners. The fee for motorcycles is not fixed yet.

VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoi’s traffic police officers will begin imposing fines on motorcycle drivers carrying kids without a helmet from April 8.