Driver Hoàng Văn Tính. — Photo suckhoedoisong

ĐỒNG NAI — Police in Định Quán District in southern Đồng Nai Province on Monday initiated legal proceedings against Hoàng Văn Tính, a sleeper bus driver responsible for the accident that resulted in five deaths and injured nine others on Saturday.

Tính, 37 years old, the driver for the Thành Bưởi bus operator that operates sleeper buses on the HCM City-Lâm Đồng Province route, has been arrested.

Early Saturday morning, he drove a 52-seat sleeper bus at high speed on the National Highway No 20's section through Phú Vinh Commune and overtook a truck moving in the same direction.

The bus collided with the left rear of the truck, then veered into the opposite lane and collided with a 16-seat minibus, which was carrying eight passengers.

The driver of the 16-seat minibus and four others were confirmed dead on Saturday.

Another individual was confirmed dead on Sunday morning after receiving treatment at Đồng Nai Province General Hospital for multiple injuries.

Tính left the scene but reported to the police office at 8am on Sunday.

He confessed that his driving licence had been revoked for three months by Lâm Đồng Province’s police for speeding.

The front of the sleeper bus damaged after the accident.

The health ministry has ordered the director of Đồng Nai Province General Hospital and Chợ Rẫy Hospital in HCM City where seriously injured victims are being treated to mobilise all sources to save the victims.

According to Đồng Nai Province’s police, sleeper buses of Thành Bưởi bus operator caused two traffic accidents in the first nine months of this year, killing seven people.

All reportedly occurred at night on the National Highway No 20.

Eight drivers of Thành Bưởi bus operator have faced penalties for speeding since earlier this year. — VNS