由 lltx1822 “Prohibited Items in Road Transportation: Necessary Measures to Protect Road Safety”
Road transportation plays a crucial role in modern logistics and people’s daily travel. However, in order to ensure road traffic safety and prevent various accidents, road transportation has strict restrictions on prohibited items, which are necessary measures to protect road safety.
In road passenger transportation, there are many types of items prohibited from being carried or checked in. Firearms, bullets, and related items, similar to rail transportation, include military and civilian firearms, their matching bullets, and various imitation guns, all of which are strictly prohibited from being transported. This is because firearms are extremely dangerous. In the enclosed space of a road passenger vehicle where people are densely packed and the vehicle is in motion, once something goes wrong with a firearm, the consequences will be unthinkable.
Explosive items are also strictly prohibited. Explosives such as bombs, grenades, and ammunition, as well as blasting materials such as explosives, detonators, and fuses, and various fireworks and firecrackers products, starting paper, etc., these items have huge explosive power. Road passenger vehicles will encounter various road conditions during the driving process, and situations such as vibration and bumping are common. Explosive items are very likely to explode in such an environment, causing serious traffic accidents and resulting in a large number of casualties and property losses.
Controlled appliances are also an important part of prohibited items in road transportation. Controlled knives such as daggers, three – edged knives, spring – loaded knives with self – locking devices, and other appliances that may be used to harm others, such as batons, tear gas devices, stun guns, are not allowed to be carried. On passenger vehicles, these controlled appliances may be used by criminals to threaten the lives of passengers and drivers and disrupt the driving order.
Flammable and explosive items are absolute “forbidden zones” in road transportation. Compressed and liquefied gases, such as hydrogen, methane, ethane, butane, natural gas, ethylene, propylene, acetylene (dissolved in the medium), carbon monoxide, liquefied petroleum gas, Freon, etc., once these gases leak and reach a certain concentration in the air, they will explode when they encounter a fire source. Flammable liquids, such as gasoline, kerosene, diesel, benzene, ethanol (alcohol), acetone, ether, paint, thinners, rosin oil, and products containing flammable solvents, are flammable and prone to causing fires. On the road, static electricity and sparks generated during the vehicle’s driving process may all be the causes of the ignition of flammable liquids. Flammable solids such as red phosphorus, flash powder, solid alcohol, self – igniting substances such as yellow phosphorus, white phosphorus, nitrocellulose (including film), substances that are flammable when wet such as potassium metal, sodium metal, lithium metal, calcium carbide, and oxidants and organic peroxides such as potassium permanganate, potassium chlorate, sodium peroxide, potassium peroxide, all these items pose great safety risks. Once an accident occurs, it will have a serious impact on road traffic.
Poisonous substances and corrosive substances are also strictly prohibited from being transported on the road. Highly toxic chemicals such as cyanide, arsenic, selenium powder, phenol, and highly toxic pesticides such as tetramine will cause fatal harm to the human body. Corrosive substances such as sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, liquid storage batteries (containing solid potassium hydroxide, or filled with acid or alkaline liquid), sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, mercury (mercury), will damage vehicle equipment and road infrastructure and may also cause harm to personnel.
In addition, items that may endanger the public health or operational safety of road passenger vehicles, such as substances with a strong pungent odor like hydrogen sulfide, and items that are likely to cause panic among passengers, even if their nature is unknown, as long as they may be dangerous, hinder public safety or public health, are also prohibited from being transported.
Road transportation enterprises and practitioners must strictly abide by these regulations on the transportation of prohibited items, strengthen the inspection of goods and passengers’ luggage, and ensure road transportation safety. At the same time, when taking road passenger vehicles, passengers should also consciously abide by the regulations and not carry prohibited items, jointly contributing to road traffic safety.