Deadline Set for Right-handed Drivers

[geovalin]

Khmer Times / Pav Suy

On May 12, any driver whose steering wheels are installed on the right side of their vehicles will find themselves on the wrong side of the law unless they pay for a special registration and license plate, according to a Transport Ministry announcement Wednesday.

The move comes months after Prime Minister Hun Sen spoke at the inauguration of the Techno overpass in early January, declaring that a previous plan to require all owners of right-sided vehicles to convert their driver-seats to the left would no longer go into effect. Instead, drivers would have to pay import taxes on the vehicles and register the ownership and license plates, the Ministry of Transport’s announcement read.

“For the existing right-hand-drive vehicles of all kinds in the Kingdom of Cambodia, which receive special permission and pay the import taxes, [they] shall apply for ownership registration and their vehicle’s license plates at the capital and provincial department of transport and public works by May 12, 2016,” it said.

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[Tomtomtom69]

Thailand should impose a similar law banning all LHD registrations. Although admittedly, there are extremely few, unlike RHD registrations in Cambodia. Still, they are dangerous and cause traffic accidents. Foreign registered vehicles brought in for tourism should obviously be exempted in both cases, but that's about it.