Multiple nasty stone attacks reported on southern Vietnam
highway
Police in
Dong Nai are hunting for suspects who have been accused of throwing stones at
several vehicles traveling on a major highway connecting the southern
province with Ho Chi Minh City recently.
Police have also stepped up surveillance and patrols along the
cars-only Ho Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway to detect similar
cases.
Late last month, a driver said someone hurled stones at his
car and broke the windshield after he passed the Long Thanh Bridge, near the
Long Phuoc toll station.
“I stopped at the station and asked the employees there for
help. They immediately drove down to the bridge but found no one,” the driver
wrote on an automobile forum.
Earlier on September 11, 2015, Tran Bao Long said he was
driving a bus on the highway when he was similarly attacked. A window was broken but luckily no one was
hurt, he said.
Several other drivers have also reported stone attacks on the
highway.
Nguyen Thi Hoai Phuong, deputy director of Vietnam Expressway
Services Engineering JSC, which manages the highway, confirmed that many
vehicles have been damaged after stones were thrown at them.
“All suspects managed to flee the scene,” she was quoted by
VnExpress as saying.
Phuong said such attacks are extremely dangerous on highways
because cars are driving at high speed. The speed limit on HCMC-Long
Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway, for instance, is 125 kilometers per hour.
“Just a small stone can cause a driver to lose control and
lead to serious accidents,” she said.
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Thứ Ba, 16 tháng 2, 2016
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