This is footage from inside a minibus that collided with a truck (reportedly a water truck) performing roadwork on a highway in Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam, resulting in 3 deaths and 7 injuries. It is baffling that the driver plowed straight into the vehicle without showing even a split-second reaction. The way he keeps touching his face might suggest he was struggling to fight off sleepiness.
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Recurring rear-end collisions involving water trucks on the same stretch of road
In Vietnam, where this accident occurred, the traffic fatality rate stands at 17.7 per 100,000 population (based on 2021 data)—a figure that exceeds both the Asia-Pacific regional average of 15.2 and the Southeast Asian average of 14.4. Nationwide, 15,251 traffic accidents occurred between January and October 2025, resulting in 8,515 deaths; however, this represents a 7.2% decrease in fatalities compared to the same period the previous year, suggesting an improving trend. In Ninh Binh Province—the site of this latest incident—there were 486 accidents and 296 deaths during the approximately nine-month period from December 2025 to September 2026, with both the number of accidents and the number of fatalities showing a decline from the previous year.
Furthermore, in September 2025, another accident occurred on the same Cau Gie–Ninh Binh Expressway, near the Phu Tu interchange. A minibus rear-ended a truck that was being used to water roadside trees, triggering a chain-reaction collision that involved a following pickup truck and a large bus. While there were no fatalities in that instance, the incident highlights a recurring pattern of collisions involving road-maintenance vehicles in this same section of the expressway.
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