Drivers find creative detours around traffic restrictions

Surveillance footage shows a man clinging to the front of a truck. Drivers are paying people to obscure their licence plates to get around time restrictions designed to ease traffic jams. Photo: Sina.

BEIJING: Some drivers in China have resorted to hiring people to cling to their vehicles and cover the licence plate numbers, so as to avoid traffic fines.

Police in Liujiang county, Guangxi province, said they had dealt with 15 cases this year of drivers obscuring their licence plates in different ways, the Nanguo Today News reported. Some drivers had paid people to cling to the front of the vehicles to cover the plate number.