Local police chief Tran Viet Hoa says officers gave the nervous-looking driver the benefit of the doubt after she claimed not to have seen the one-way sign. They told her she could write "I promise not to travel in the wrong direction on a one-way street again" 50 times, or pay a fine. The woman gratefully accepted the cheaper option, according to Mr Hoa, and immediately got on with the job while perched on the kerbside