At 10:00 a.m. on November 8, the Cross-Area Traffic Police Team (under the Traffic Police Department of Hanoi City Police) set up a checkpoint to handle violations on Xuan Thuy Street (Cau Giay, Hanoi). During this shift, the Traffic Police Team focused on handling violations of traffic laws by students.

The main violations that students often commit are not wearing helmets when driving motorbikes, not having a driver's license, using cell phones, wearing headphones while driving...

After a few minutes of setting up the checkpoint, the Traffic Police Team stopped and checked 10 cases of violations: not wearing helmets, carrying a passenger on the back without wearing a helmet.

Student NQV (grade 12, High School for the Gifted) said that due to his subjective mentality of traveling a short distance, he drove his friend without wearing a helmet.

"I took my friend from school to the bus stop, which was only a few hundred meters away, so I didn't think about wearing a helmet. After being fined this time, I will learn from my experience and strictly obey traffic laws," NQV said.

There are many students who do not have a driver's license but are still given large-displacement motorbikes by their families.

Like the case of a 12th grade male student at Tran Hung Dao High School (Thanh Xuan) who was discovered by the Working Group to have violated the law: carrying a passenger behind without wearing a helmet and not being old enough to drive a vehicle.

"Because today I had to travel far from Ha Dong to school in Thanh Xuan and then to Cau Giay, my mother gave me the car to drive. When I left, she told me to drive slowly and to remember to wear a helmet, not to mention that I didn't have a driver's license," the male student said.

It was also noted that there were many cases of students resisting, weaving, and swerving when traffic police discovered violations and asked them to stop their vehicles for processing.

A female student of Hanoi National University of Education even caused a traffic accident for another person because she turned her car around too quickly. The female student said that she was subjective and did not wear a helmet because she was driving a short distance. She did not intend to run away, but because she was afraid of being punished, she panicked and caused an accident.

Major Tran Quang Chinh - Head of the Cross-Area Traffic Police Team said that at the end of the shift, the Team had handled more than 20 cases of students violating traffic laws.

"The situation of students violating traffic laws is quite common, because some students' awareness of obeying the law is not good. In addition, families also do not manage their students well when they give them vehicles to use without providing them with knowledge about traffic safety," said Major Tran Quang Chinh.

In addition to administrative sanctions against students who violate traffic laws, the Traffic Police Department of Hanoi City Police also sends notices to schools for education and discipline.