Truck driver fined for wrong-way driving on new southern Vietnamese expressway

Traffic police officers said on Friday that they fined a truck driver VND17 million (US$725) for driving on the wrong side of the newly-opened Phan Thiet-Dau Giay Expressway in southern Vietnam. On Thursday, they fined a pickup truck driver for driving on the wrong side of the route. Traffic police officers said on Friday that they fined a truck driver VND17 million (US$725) for driving on the wrong side of the newly-opened Phan Thiet-Dau Giay Expressway in southern Vietnam. On Thursday, they fined a pickup truck driver for driving on the wrong side of the route. The 99-kilometer Phan Thiet-Dau Giay Expressway was opened to traffic last weekend.