Many delegates agreed with the absolute ban on alcohol levels when driving vehicles in traffic

Delegate Nguyen Dai Thang (Hung Yen delegation).

Speaking at the Conference, delegates all said that the development of the Road Traffic Safety Law is in accordance with the Party's guidelines, policies and directions, meeting objective practical requirements with the goal of ensuring lives. , people's health and property when participating in traffic, specifically identifying the State agency responsible for road traffic safety, contributing to improving the efficiency of state management in ensuring security. , safety for people when participating in traffic.

One of the issues that many delegates are concerned about and agree with the draft Law is the regulation prohibiting the act of driving a vehicle participating in road traffic with alcohol in the blood or breath. Delegate Nguyen Dai Thang (Hung Yen delegation) said, "During the discussion session at the 6th National Assembly Session, I proposed to consider the need for an alcohol concentration threshold, however, after carefully evaluating the , disadvantages, I agree with the absolute ban on alcohol content when driving a vehicle in traffic."

Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Khac Dinh moderated the meeting content.

 

Delegate Nguyen Dai Thang said that in recent times, the Traffic Police force has increased inspection and handling of alcohol concentration violations, thereby contributing to reducing traffic accidents. “According to authorities' data, in 2023, the number of traffic accidents related to alcohol use will decrease by 25%, the number of deaths by 50%, and the number of injuries by 22% over the same period. . With the motto that human life comes first and foremost, an absolute ban on alcohol concentration when driving is necessary" - the delegate said, and at the same time said that, if the regulation violates the alcohol concentration to The new threshold is "when we sit at the table to drink alcohol and beer, how do we determine if we are drinking within the allowed threshold?". "Currently, when the authorities increase handling of violations of alcohol concentration, people have gradually formed the habit of "if you drink alcohol, don't drive", therefore, the regulation absolutely prohibits alcohol concentration while driving. Drivers will receive approval and support from public opinion" - the delegate stated.

 

Agreeing with the above regulations, delegate Nguyen Van Canh (Binh Dinh delegation) said that it is necessary to increase penalties for violations of high alcohol concentration. However, delegates proposed that with low alcohol concentration, less than 0,1mg/liter of breath, there should only be administrative fines, but not revocation of the driver's license. "However, this regulation of not revoking driver's licenses should not apply to motorbike drivers operating passenger and cargo transport services" - the delegate said.

 

Also agreeing with the above point of view, delegate Thai Thi An Chung (Nghe An delegation) expressed her agreement with the draft Law stipulating an absolute ban on alcohol concentration for drivers. “The reasons given by the Government and the National Defense and Security Committee are very complete and convincing. In fact, this regulation has also been discussed, carefully reviewed by the 01th National Assembly and unanimously approved in the Law on Prevention of Harmful Effects of Alcohol and will be implemented from January 01, 2020. Due to the impact of the COVID -19 epidemic, implementation time has not been long, but the implementation process and drastic handling of alcohol concentration violations for traffic vehicle drivers have raised people's awareness. Awareness and responsibility regarding alcohol use when participating in traffic. This not only contributes to ensuring safety for road users but also changes the habit of alcohol abuse in today's life, not only having immediate significance but also long-term significance in improving health. health of Vietnamese people" - stated the delegate.

 

According to Article 9, draft Law on Road Traffic Safety, prohibited acts include:   1. Driving a vehicle participating in road traffic with alcohol in the blood or breath.   2. Driving a vehicle participating in road traffic with drugs or other stimulants prohibited by law in the body.   3. Operating a motor vehicle participating in road traffic without a driver's license as prescribed; Operating a special-use motorbike participating in road traffic without a driver's license or certificate of training in legal knowledge on road traffic, or a license or certificate to operate a special-use motorbike.   4. Insulting, threatening, obstructing, opposing or failing to comply with instructions, requests to check, control, command and direct traffic of people on duty to ensure traffic order and safety road traffic.   5. Organizing racing, racing, inciting, assisting, and encouraging illegal racing; Driving a vehicle participating in road traffic to swerve, swerve, and rev the engine continuously.   6. Holding and using phones or other electronic devices while driving a vehicle participating in road traffic.   7. Handing over motor vehicles and specialized motorbikes to people who are not qualified to drive vehicles participating in road traffic.   8. Bringing motor vehicles, specialized motorbikes that do not meet technical safety and environmental protection standards, homemade vehicles and other unlicensed vehicles to participate in road traffic.   9. Manufacturing, assembling, and importing motor vehicles and specialized motorcycles does not ensure quality, technical safety, and environmental protection.   10. Convert other cars into passenger cars.   11. Arbitrarily change the vehicle's structure, shape, layout, components, and systems, install or remove unsafe spare parts related to technical safety and environmental protection of the vehicle when participating in traffic compared to the design or technical documents approved by the competent authority; arbitrarily intervene to distort the indicators on the car's odometer; Rent or borrow motor vehicle parts just to carry out inspection; arbitrarily cutting, welding, erasing, chiseling, re-stamping the frame and engine numbers of motor vehicles and specialized motorcycles.   12. Arbitrarily intervening and changing the control software of motor vehicles, specialized motorbikes, and engines that have been registered with management agencies, with the purpose of cheating on inspection, testing, and inspection results .   13. Carrying goods that exceed the total weight, axle load, and allowable dimensions of the vehicle or exceed the allowable load and size limits of the road without being licensed or guaranteed by the management agency. requirements according to the provisions of this Law; Carrying goods on a vehicle that is required to be tied but not tied or tied incorrectly; carries more persons specified.   14. Transporting goods banned from circulation, illegally transported or not fully complying with regulations on transporting dangerous goods and wild animals.   15. Threatening, insulting, competing with, or manipulating passengers; threaten or force passengers to use services against their will; transferring, unloading passengers or other acts to avoid detection of overloaded vehicles or more than the prescribed number of people.   16. Installing and using sound and lighting equipment on motor vehicles and specialized motorbikes causes disorder and road traffic safety.   17. Illegally producing, using, buying, and selling license plates; Operating a motor vehicle or specialized motorbike with a license plate not issued by a competent state agency, or with a license plate in the wrong location; bending and covering license plates; change the letters, numbers, colors, shapes, and sizes of license plates.   18. Disrupting operations or falsifying data of journey monitoring devices and cameras installed on vehicles according to the provisions of this Law.   19. Vandalism, destruction, or damage to road traffic control and monitoring equipment, and smart equipment to support traffic command and control.   20. Illegally placing or placing obstacles or other obstructions on the road; spread sharp objects; pouring slippery substances on roads; scattering soil, rocks, goods, materials, and construction waste on the road.   21. Obstructing people and vehicles from participating in traffic on the road; throwing bricks, soil, rocks, sand or other objects at people and vehicles participating in traffic on the road.    22. Taking advantage of or abusing the duty to ensure road traffic order and safety to commit acts of violating the law, harassing, infringing on state interests, legitimate rights and interests of organizations, individual.   23. Taking advantage of one's own or another person's position, power, or profession to violate the law on order and road traffic safety or to interfere and influence the process of handling violations of the law on order and safety. safety, road traffic safety.   24. Do not declare, falsely declare or provide untrue information and documents to avoid responsibility when discovered to have violated the law on road traffic order and safety.   25. Fleeing after causing a traffic accident to avoid responsibility; When conditions permit, you intentionally do not help someone in a traffic accident; infringing on the life, health, and property of the victim and the person causing the traffic accident; taking advantage of traffic accidents to assault, threaten, incite, pressure, disrupt order, and obstruct the handling of traffic accidents.   26. Controlling flying objects, unmanned aircraft, or ultra-light aircraft operating within road limits, causing obstructions or unsafe risks for people and vehicles participating in road traffic, except for unmanned aircraft and ultra-light aircraft that are licensed to fly.   27. Other acts violating road traffic rules specified in Chapter II of this Law.