January 25, 2012
Three people were killed and one seriously injured Saturday after a speeding bus crashed into two motorbikes on a highway in the south central province of Binh Thuan. Local police said the passenger bus, driven by Luong Hung Dung, 31, was traveling from Phan Thiet City in Binh Thuan Province to Quang Ngai Province [...]
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November 23, 2011
Potholes on the Ho Chi Minh City – Trung Luong highway in southern Vietnam The Vietnamese transport ministry Monday suspended the official managing the country’s first cars-only expressway after its poor quality allegedly caused many accidents since it opened to traffic almost two years ago. The charges have not been spelled out, but Minister Dinh [...]
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November 21, 2011
Speeding and handing the wheels over to unlicensed drivers is not uncommon practice among container truck drivers, an investigation finds Rescuers carrying the body of a victim killed by an accident between a container truck and a bus that left 10 dead in Binh Thuan Province on November 7. The lack of container truck [...]
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September 23, 2011
Spurned in two previous attempts, I used some cheap psychology to conquer a unique mountain After reaching the top of Da Bia Mountain, some lie down exhausted while others try to decipher the words on rocks believed to be etched by King Le Thanh Tong in 1471 For local residents, it has always been [...]
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July 20, 2011
The injured passengers being treated at Cho Ray Hospital in HCMC. Two people died and 10 others were injured after a 16-seat bus crashed into a truck on a highway section in the Mekong Delta province of Long An early Monday morning. The accident happened at around 4 a.m. when the bus was traveling from [...]
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June 19, 2011
Reckless driving and frequent tire blow outs have plagued Vietnam’s most advanced roadway The bus involved in the accident on June 13 that killed 8 people and injured 10 others on the Ho Chi Minh City-Trung Luong Highway Investigations into a recent highway accident, which killed eight and injured 10, has indicated that speeding [...]
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June 14, 2011
The truck had its tire broken and stopped on the highway At least eight people died and 10 others were injured after a passenger bus crashed into a truck on a highway section in the Mekong Delta province of Long An early Monday morning. The bus was heading for Ho Chi Minh City when it [...]
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June 5, 2011
Seven people were killed and five others injured, on Friday evening, in a trio of highway accidents on a section of the National Highway 1A in the northern Vietnamese province of Ha Tinh. The first accident occurred at around 9 p.m. when a packed seven-seater plunged off a cliff near a highway bypass in Ha Tinh Province’s Ky Phuong Commune. Five of the [...]
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June 1, 2011
The 39 injured passengers are being treated at the Ninh Thuan General Hospital (Photo: Nguoi Lao Dong). At least four people died and 39 others were injured after a passenger bus overturned on a national highway section in the central province of Ninh Thuan early Monday. The bus overturned at around 1 a.m. on the [...]
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May 22, 2011
At least 220 people were killed in 257 traffic accidents in Ho Chi Minh City in the first quarter of this year. At least 220 people were killed in 257 traffic accidents in Ho Chi Minh City in the first quarter of this year, compared to 176 fatalities the same period last year, municipal officials [...]
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