Transport police on the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway flagged down a passing sleeper coach at 6:30pm on 15 June only to find 148 passengers on a coach with a capacity of 39.

The deluxe sleeper coach belonged to a transport company in Anhui province. According to the driver, the passengers were all farmers heading back to their jobs in Shanghai after helping out with the harvest at home.

The police arranged for three coaches to take the immigrant workers to Shanghai. The driver was fined Rmb2,000 and 12 points were added to his licence. The coach was confiscated and the owner was handed a Rmb20,000 bill for transferring the passengers.