City campaign spots 38,000 traffic offenses
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MORE than 38,000 offenses from long-distance buses, tourist buses, trucks transporting industrial chemicals and heavily laden trucks have been committed in the city this month alone.
The offenses were discovered during an August road safety campaign, Shanghai traffic police said yesterday.
Among the offenses were 800 or so buses taking more passengers than allowed, trucks being overloaded, as well as numerous cases of driver fatigue, according to the police.
Police have beefed up their presence at 29 check stations located at the border of Shanghai and neighboring provinces and stepped up checks at night when rear-end collisions occur at a higher frequency.
Zhou Gang, vice head of the expressway police unit of Pudong traffic police, said offenses involving trucks frequently concerned missing rear and side protective devices and reflective tapes, illegal use of small vehicle lanes, emergency lanes or road verges on expressways, and not setting up warning signs on the expressway when stopping due to mechanical failures or traffic accidents.
“Injuries and casualties often happen in accidents involving trucks on expressways due to high speed,” said Zhou.
Two truck accidents occurred on the southern part of G1501 expressway early yesterday morning. In one of them — a pile-up involving four trucks — one person was killed and two were injured, police said.
They have also been on the lookout for driver fatigue, which is often considered to be a leading cause of traffic accidents.
On Wednesday afternoon, police said one truck driver was so drowsy he drove into the steel fences in the middle of the S1 expressway, which connects Pudong International Airport and downtown, and damaged a section of them.
“When patrolling the expressways, we will stop zigzagging drivers who are highly likely to be driving while fatigued,” Zhou said. “But we fine them only if they look really tired or admit that they are tired.”
Such drivers are fined 200 yuan (US$30) with no demerits in their licenses.
One truck driver was fined 200 yuan with 12 demerits on his license on Wednesday afternoon for “playing tricks” with his registration plate, Yangpu traffic police said yesterday.
From the driver’s cabin, he had placed an iron wire that pulled the number plate on the back of the truck up and down to prevent it being read by traffic cameras.
The driver, surnamed Zhang, claimed he had invented the device to make space for bamboo sticks that he had placed at the bottom of his truck when he didn’t have to use them to fasten goods.
Police said any irregular installation of vehicle plates will be punished.
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