Results tagged “trafficviolations”

Hey VIPs! Just because you’re VIPs doesn’t mean you get to drive all willy nilly on the road, despite there actually being regulations that allow you to do so. Shanghai mayor Han Zheng has warned government officials and emergency vehicles to stop abusing the privilege, scolding that “vehicles for the government departments should set a good example.” In three weeks in October, there were 57 cases of privileged vehicles breaking traffic regulations. Stop it, Han Zheng has requested, adding that police will be checking for these kind of violations more stringently.

So Shanghai may have found a ridiculous amount of drunk drivers during the most recent ten day crackdown on drunk driving (1200 people!), but it didn't even make it into the top nine worst offenders.

This guy gets our vote for ballsiest old man ever: 74-year-old Yan Zhengping, a retired language teacher living in Lanzhou, got sick of all the damn cars running red lights at an intersection in his city. So he went to a crosswalk armed with a brick, whacking at any vehicles that zoomed past him during a red light. He got 14. He told reporters that there were just too many instances of nearly dying while walking across the zebra crossing. Though he knew his actions were illegal too, he couldn't think of any other way to bring attention to the problem. It seems like it worked. According to the Lanzhou Morning Post, there are now police at the intersection keeping an eye out for errant drivers. Source: Xinhua (Chinese)