Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thuy, an urban traffic expert, expressed his support and evaluated this as a “very positive” regulation. Because this regulation ensures the improvement of awareness and skills of traffic participants.
“In fact, in the past we had regulations on driving license points and deductions. At that time, I saw many drivers who were afraid of increasing or decreasing points, so they drove with a high sense of compliance with traffic laws.
Now re-applying this regulation is very good, and at the same time, law enforcement agencies need to be more strict in order to raise the awareness of traffic participants,” Mr. Thuy commented.
Regarding the point level and method of deduction of points, Mr. Thuy said that the Ministry of Public Security needs to research appropriately and fairly, especially applying technology to ensure that the regulations do not cause inconvenience to people during the trial process. physical.
In addition, handling traffic accident violations requires evaluating many factors to consider deduction of points or administrative sanctions. “Because traffic accidents stem from many factors, not entirely due to the driver’s skills,” Mr. Thuy commented.
Another traffic expert affirmed that the above regulation is an effective educational solution for drivers, overcoming the disadvantages of previous penalties for punching holes and confiscating driver’s licenses.
However, the deduction of driving license points will be stored in a common database, helping to overcome cases where violators respond by reporting the loss of their license and applying for a reissue to erase the previous violation. To do this, the database on handling violations must be interconnected nationwide, making it easy to check and compare…
Thus, the storage infrastructure system will be very large and require investment capital so that local authorities can look up and store and deduct points from vehicle drivers for violations. This is an issue that authorities must take into account if this content is included in the draft Law.
The Ministry of Public Security affirms that the above regulations will ensure simplicity, reasonableness, and avoid trouble for violators, in the direction of applying information technology, digitizing the database system on testing and issuance of driving licenses; Database system on sanctions for administrative violations.
When there is a penalty decision, the driver will receive a notice from the sanctioning agency about points being deducted from their license; The database system will automatically deduct points (there is no contact between the person with sanctioning authority and the violator, so there will be no negativity and no overlap with other forms of sanction for administrative violations). or after 1 year from the last point deduction, if points remain, the system will automatically restore points to the driver.
