Netizens posted online that the traffic violations of an urban management enforcement vehicle in Leiyang had reached 508 times, yet the traffic police did nothing about it.
The official website of the Traffic Police Brigade of Hengyang Public Security Bureau shows the violation records of vehicle with license plate number Xiang D82826.
Chart/ Xiao Xiang Morning Post by Hou Dongmei
Rednet (Xiao Xiang Morning Post), Changsha, April 6 - "Government staff driving enforcement vehicles to run red lights is a common occurrence. They know the law but still break it, which is truly disheartening!" Recently, a post titled "Leiyang's Most Powerful Tyrant Car" caused a huge stir online. The post claims that vehicle Xiang D82826, belonging to the Urban Management Team of Leiyang City, has accumulated over 500 traffic violations from 2005 to now and has not accepted punishment from the traffic department, ranking first in Hengyang City (Leiyang is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Hengyang), bringing "honor" to the people of Leiyang. Many netizens exclaimed they have learned something new.
Post: Urban Management Enforcement Vehicle Violated Rules 508 Times Without Handling
On April 2, a netizen named "King of the Forest" posted a thread titled "Leiyang's Most Powerful Tyrant Car" on the Leiyang Community forum. He said that a few days ago, while waiting for the red light at a crossroads in the city center, he witnessed a surprising scene: a car with the license plate number Xiang D82826 "went straight through the red light." Even more astonishingly, when this netizen logged into "Ping An Online" to check the car's violation situation, he discovered a shocking secret. It turns out that the car belongs to the Leiyang City Enforcement Team and has run red lights over 500 times from 2005 to now, refusing to accept punishment from the traffic department, ranking first in Hengyang City.
After carefully checking, this netizen also found that another car with the license plate number "Xiang D82821," also belonging to the Leiyang City Urban Management Team, has run red lights 377 times without accepting punishment, ranking second in Hengyang City; the car with the license plate number "Xiang D82824" has violated rules 205 times, ranking 36th; the car with the license plate number "Xiang D82822" has violated rules 198 times, ranking 43rd; the car with the license plate number "Xiang D82823" has violated rules only 175 times, ranking 67th. The frequency with which the urban management enforcement vehicles run red lights led the netizen to sarcastically comment: "Too powerful! The Leiyang Urban Management has brought 'honor' to the people of Leiyang."
License Plate Xiang D82826 Accumulated Deductions of 660 Points Over Five Years, Should Have Had License Revoked 55 Times
After statistics, the total fines for vehicle Xiang D82826 have accumulated up to 72,800 yuan, with deductions accumulating to 660 points. According to regulations, if you accumulate 12 points in a year, your driver's license will be revoked and you must retake the exam. This single vehicle has accumulated 55 sets of 12 points, requiring the revocation of the license 55 times. Additionally, for Xiang D82821, there are "381 unprocessed illegal records," accumulating fines of 57,100 yuan; Xiang D82824 ―― 211 cases, 31,400 yuan; Xiang D82822 ―― 201 cases, 26,700 yuan; Xiang D82823 ―― 189 cases, 24,100 yuan.
Netizens Discuss: Urban Management Knows the Law But Breaks It, Traffic Police Turn a Blind Eye?
On April 5, the post was reprinted on Rednet Forum, Tianya Community, and other websites, causing many netizens to criticize, "Is this the image of Leiyang's urban management? Enforcement vehicles drive recklessly, how can one word 'powerful' describe it?" "Who says all crows are equally black? In fact, one is darker than the other!" "Urban management's privilege thinking is severe, knowing the law but breaking it, the traffic police department ignores it completely, which is disheartening and poses great risks." Netizens like "Duzuo Building, Listening to Rain Alone" and "Nanyang Hermit" expressed their respective views.
However, some netizens gave different opinions, claiming it might be the result of cloned cars or possibly incorrect information on the official website. However, even so, if it is a cloned car that hasn't been investigated for so many years, it's the fault of the traffic police department. If the information queried on the official website is wrong, it is also the fault of the traffic police department. People look forward to official explanations from Leiyang and Hengyang.
Leiyang Urban Management: Special Work Requires Running Red Lights to Pursue Illegal Vehicles
This staff member introduced that Leiyang Urban Management also undertakes tasks such as prohibiting "mud trucks" from being on the road during the day. These vehicles often run red lights and escape upon seeing urban management. In situations where safety can be guaranteed, urban management will also run red lights to pursue them. Most of the traffic violations found on the traffic police brigade's website fall under this category, and the situation of urban management members violating rules without cause is "absolutely non-existent."
Hengyang Traffic Police: If True, Regardless of Who Is Involved, Legal Action Will Be Taken
Legal Expert: A "Police Car" Violating Rules 508 Times in Five Years Exceeds Reasonable Limits
In the Leiyang incident, relevant departments seriously neglected their duties, neither imposing administrative penalties on violators nor giving administrative sanctions. This greatly undermines the authority of national laws and creates among ordinary people the perception of "official protectionism." The severity and harm of the problem should not be underestimated.
According to Article 53 of the Road Traffic Safety Law, only police cars, fire trucks, ambulances, and engineering rescue vehicles performing urgent tasks may, under the premise of ensuring safety, be exempt from restrictions on driving routes, directions, speeds, and traffic lights. However, the exposed urban management enforcement vehicles do not fall within the scope of police cars. Even if they were police cars, they could only occasionally "violate" the rules while performing urgent tasks and ensuring traffic safety. A "police car" violating rules 508 times within a few years exceeds reasonable limits, inevitably giving people endless room for imagination.
Special Commentary: Behind the Most Powerful Tyrant Car Lies the Most Powerful "Tyranny"
Wang Shichuan (Senior Commentator)
Facing the most powerful tyrant car, what special flavors can we read from it? First, the most powerful tyrant is not the car, but power. There would be no tyrant car without tyrant power. Why does urban management dare to violate laws and regulations, such as failing to follow traffic signal light regulations, failing to drive in designated lanes, and parking illegally or temporarily parking without the driver present or the driver refusing to immediately leave, obstructing the passage of other vehicles and pedestrians? It's because these cars belong to urban management.
Let's make an assumption: Would an ordinary citizen's car dare to act so arrogantly? Of course not! Because once an ordinary citizen's car violates the law, it will suffer legal penalties, and no citizen would dare to joke around with their own car. In fact, expanding our perspective, we find that behind every tyrant car often lies privilege.
Secondly, the reason why tyrant cars are tyrannical is related to "tyranny" on one hand, and on the other hand, it is related to the inaction of relevant departments. Obviously, no matter how powerful the tyrant car is, once it encounters strict law enforcement, regardless of who is driving or which department the car belongs to, it will be severely punished without mercy, penalizing one after another, punishing each violation strictly, and dealing with intentionally law-breaking vehicles promptly without leniency. Would tyrant cars still exist then?
The 508 unprocessed violation records indicate what? They indicate the inaction of relevant departments! There is a detail in the report: a relevant staff member of the local urban management department claimed, "The traffic police side also understands us..." What a good "understanding"! Why don't traffic police understand ordinary citizens? Such "understanding" inevitably leads to ambiguous thoughts of official protectionism.
Finally, the power of tyrant cars allows us to imagine their usual domineering style. Tyrant cars are not isolated phenomena. Tyrant cars are powerful because the people driving them are powerful, and because the departments to which the tyrant cars belong are powerful. A department that dares to treat the Road Traffic Safety Law as a joke, would they care about street vendors? Would an urban management officer driving a tyrant car recklessly show kindness to street vendors? Clearly, it's impossible!
It can be said that the most powerful tyrant car is a multi-faceted mirror, allowing us to see the domineering power, the inaction of relevant departments, and even more so, the helpless and sorrowful plight of street vendors. American economist Galbraith believed that a good society should be "everyone has work and opportunities to improve their lives, everyone has the chance to succeed based on their abilities and ambitions." Clearly, if the domineering privileges of urban management are not rectified, urban street vendors will be unable to have a healthy state of existence.