Ho Chi Minh City Traffic Police Department informed about the incident where the green light suddenly turned red after 40 seconds in District 1.

(NLDO) - The traffic light incident suddenly changed at the intersection of Nguyen Huu Canh - Ton Duc Thang. The Traffic Police Department of Ho Chi Minh City Police is coordinating to clarify the cause.

The Traffic Police Department (PC08) of Ho Chi Minh City Police received information from the press about a traffic light incident at the Nguyen Huu Canh - Ton Duc Thang intersection, District 1 (Ho Chi Minh City), which occurred at 2:35 p.m. on January 18.

Immediately after receiving the case, PC08 directed the Ben Thanh Traffic Police Team to conduct an inspection, review and coordinate with relevant units of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport to clarify the incident, and committed to providing detailed information about the cause when the results are available.

The green light suddenly turned yellow, then red at the intersection of Nguyen Huu Canh - Ton Duc Thang, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City - Photo: Cut from CLIP

PC08 representative said that at the time of the incident, there was no traffic police team handling violations at the intersection, so no cases were punished by the traffic police. Through discussions with the leaders of the Urban Traffic Infrastructure Management Department, Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport, the preliminary record is as follows: The traffic light system at this intersection is not a smart light system but operates according to a pre-installed cycle.

PC08 also checked the center's traffic light management system and did not detect any human intervention or impact on the traffic light control cabinet. The initial cause was determined to be due to the process of switching the time cycle according to the setup program, causing the traffic light system to suddenly switch cycles without fully performing the previous traffic light countdown cycle, causing the incident.

Traffic light suddenly turned red at the intersection of Nguyen Huu Canh and Ton Duc Thang, many people violated

The relevant units are continuing to coordinate to handle technical issues to fix the problem. For the vehicles in the clip recorded and spread on social networks, if there is a violation of traffic light compliance, the authorities affirm that they will consider not handling the violation in this case.

Previously, a clip circulating on social media recorded images of more than 10 vehicles, including motorbikes and cars, unable to stop in time when the traffic light at the Nguyen Huu Canh - Ton Duc Thang intersection suddenly changed from green (40 seconds left) to yellow and red, which was widely shared on social media, attracting public attention.

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