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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January 4, 2012
A public bus conductor in southern Vietnam was arrested in an investigation regarding his beating of an irate man who later died. According to the investigation, on Sunday Nguyen Van An and another man, who both were drunk, tried to catch a bus driven with conductor Nguyen Minh Tai. As the pair were drunk, the bus in Dong [...]
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December 26, 2011
Hanoi police check the accident scene where a woman broke her leg after falling from a public bus on Saturday A 67 year old woman in Hanoi was hospitalized with a broken leg after falling from a public bus on Saturday. Bus driver Nguyen Van Can said the passenger Pham Thi Cham was carrying many [...]
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November 19, 2011
Two people, including a British woman, were killed and 15 injured after a bus crashed into a truck and a car in the northern province of Quang Ninh on Wednesday (November 16). At around 10 a.m., the bus carrying some 10 passengers crashed into a truck traveling the opposite direction on National Highway 18A [...]
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November 12, 2011
Vietnamese police said they are verifying information that a driver’s assistant was driving the container truck before filing charges in the tragic accident that killed 10 people and injured 21 on Monday, November 7 in a central province. Colonel Nguyen Van Lang, police chief in Ham Thuan Bac District, Binh Thuan Province, said the [...]
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September 23, 2011
Mafia-esque bus transportation system a no-holds-barred race fraught with risk Buses wait to pick up passengers on the road outside the Giap Bat Bus Station in Hanoi It took 30 minutes for the bus to travel just one kilometer as it inched its way out of the My Dinh Terminal in Hanoi at around [...]
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July 30, 2011
I’ve spent a lot of time in Hanoi over the last 14 years, and have strong emotions about it, not of course all positive. Back in 1994, it was possible to walk around at 10 p.m. in the winter down the streets, which were basically empty of traffic, with a group of friends. There [...]
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July 26, 2011
A view of the Pha Din mountain pass. Two children and a man were killed after a bus overturned on a mountain pass in the northwestern province of Dien Bien on Saturday, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reported. The bus was traveling from the northern province of Hung Yen to Dien Bien when it crashed into [...]
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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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July 3, 2011
The accident site where a head on collision with a bus killed all six people traveling in a car. Six people died after a car crashed into a bus on National Highway 1A in the central province of Khanh Hoa early Tuesday. According to polce, the four-seater crashed into the passenger bus, which was traveling on the opposite [...]
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