The case of the truck hitting the ambulance: The driver spoke up about the behavior of "physical impact"

Explaining about swinging his hand at the truck driver and then returning to the car to get a stick, Mr. Nghi said it was because the truck driver sitting in the car had an attitude, even pulling the window, offering a plow to threaten to beat him. Older brother.

On October 18, the Traffic Police Department of Tuyen Quang province said that it had made a record of handling VTP drivers (born in 1978, in Son Duong district, Tuyen Quang) for the act of driving a car without giving way to a priority vehicle. signaled and did not have a driver's license. A remarkable detail is that the image recorded from another camera angle shows the scene of the ambulance going above and blocking the truck.

The two men in the ambulance then went down and "physical impact" occurred with the truck driver. The man even stepped out of the ambulance's driver's seat and swung his arm at the truck driver, who then returned to the vehicle carrying a cane.

After the clip was shared, many opinions suggested that the ambulance driver should not act like that but should continue the journey to bring the patient to the emergency room in time. There is also an opinion that the ambulance driver was too angry with the truck driver's act of not giving way, so he did so.

According to Mr. Nghi (ambulance driver), this time the truck was traveling very slowly on a long road. Even this car driver also pressed, not allowing the ambulance to pass to take the patient to the emergency room. When he overtook the truck, Mr. Nghi said he stopped the car to remind the truck driver.

Explaining about swinging his hand at the truck driver and then returning to the car to get a stick, Mr. Nghi said it was because the truck driver sitting in the car had an attitude, even pulling the window, offering a plow to threaten to beat him. Older brother. "In fact, I am also angry but not so much that I have to solve it by force," Mr. Nghi explained and denied assaulting the truck driver. "The family members were so angry that they asked me to stop the car and remind the truck driver," Mr. Nghi said.

"The patient's family claimed that if their wife had any fate, the truck driver should be responsible," Mr. Nghi explained and denied that he hit the truck driver. The ambulance driver said that the patient's family asked to stop the vehicle, however, Mr. Nghiem Van Dung (husband of the victim on the ambulance) said that his family did not ask the driver to stop the vehicle to remind the truck driver.

"At that time, my family just wanted to go as fast as possible because my wife was in critical condition. When the ambulance driver was able to pass, he also went down to remind the truck driver, but the truck did not fit, and aggressively tried to drive in. ambulance driver," Dung said.

Talking to Zing, the leader of the Traffic Police Department, Tuyen Quang Provincial Police said that the unit has not received any feedback on this clip. "Maybe at that time the patient's family was upset. However, the truck driver himself admitted his fault when working with the police and did not mention anything about being stopped in front of the car or proposing to handle it", the doctor said. this said.

Regarding the health situation of the female victim on the ambulance, Mr. Nghiem Van Dung said that his wife, Mrs. HTT, had been successfully operated by doctors of Vietnam - Germany Friendship Hospital. By the afternoon of October 18, Ms. T. had passed the critical condition and was in the emergency room.

Talking to PV Dan Viet, lawyer Nguyen Thi Quynh Tho (Interla Law Office) said that according to the provisions of the Road Traffic Law 2008, vehicles such as fire trucks go on duty; Military vehicles, police cars on urgent missions, convoys led by police cars; Ambulance is on emergency duty; Dike protection vehicles, vehicles on duty to remedy natural disasters, epidemics or vehicles on duty in a state of emergency as prescribed by law; The hearse is the priority vehicle.

Because of the urgency and quick requirements of the above vehicles while on duty, the above vehicles when participating in traffic will have the right of priority to go ahead of other vehicles. When traveling on the road, if they encounter signals, horns or lights of the above priority vehicles, road users must slow down, avoid or stop close to the curb to give way to priority vehicles.

Ms. Tho said, according to Clause 3, Article 2 of Decree 123/2021/ND-CP of the Government, vehicle drivers do not give way or obstruct the priority vehicle which is sending priority signal to go to work. The officer will be fined for the act of "Failing to yield to or obstructing the vehicle with the right-of-way which is sending a priority signal to go on duty". The fine level is from 6 to 8 million VND.

For the act of not having a driving license, Clause 11, Article 2 of the above Decree stipulates that the fine for drivers of cars, tractors and similar vehicles without a driving license will be a fine of 10 -12 million dong. In addition, in cases where the vehicle driver does not yield to the right-of-way or obstructs the vehicle with the right-of-way, causing serious consequences, dangerous to society, property damage, or obstructing persons. may be examined for penal liability for the crime of "Violation of regulations on participation in road traffic" specified in Article 260 of the Penal Code 2015.

From the above analysis, the female lawyer said that the truck driver in the case had an act of obstructing the priority vehicle and could be administratively fined with a total amount of about 20 million VND, stripped of his driving license from 2 to 4 months. If they cause serious consequences, they can be prosecuted.

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