{"id":76998,"date":"2026-04-11T02:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/10\/concerns-about-motorbike-tourist-trail-after-death-british-teenager-orla-wates-vietnam"},"modified":"2026-04-11T02:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T17:20:20","slug":"concerns-raised-about-motorbike-tourist-trail-after-death-of-british-teenager-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=76998","title":{"rendered":"Concerns raised about motorbike tourist trail after death of British teenager in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local people say road conditions are rugged and weather unpredictable, while some say it has become too congested<\/p>\n<p>The recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/apr\/08\/orla-wates-family-tribute-british-teenager-killed-motorcycle-crash-vietnam-ha-giang-loop\">death of a British gap-year student on the Ha Giang loop<\/a>, a popular motorcycle tour through the mountains in north Vietnam, has heightened concerns about a trail reputed to be one of the most dangerous in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Orla Wates, 19, from Surrey, was riding as a pillion passenger when <a href=\"https:\/\/vietnamnews.vn\/society\/1778916\/uk-teenager-s-tragic-death-gives-life-to-five-critically-ill-patients.html\">she fell off and was hit by an oncoming truck<\/a>, according to local media. She was taken to hospital in Hanoi, where she died from her injuries last week.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/apr\/10\/concerns-about-motorbike-tourist-trail-after-death-british-teenager-orla-wates-vietnam\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local people say road conditions are rugged and weather unpredictable, while some say it has become too congestedThe recent death of a British gap-year student on the Ha Giang loop, a popular motorcycle tour through the mountains in north Vietnam, has &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3527,52,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-surrey","category-uk-news","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76999,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76998\/revisions\/76999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}