ACCIDENTS are largely caused by human errors. It takes some patience and carefulness and God’s intervention to steer clear of accidents that continue to claim the lives of many, maim others and cause misery to thousands of households.
The Northern Region Secretariat of the National Road Safety Committee has therefore expressed concern over the increasing spate of road accidents in the area and called on road users to exercise maximum restraint while driving, particularly on the highways.
Within the first quarter of this year, more than 64 people have lost their lives in road accidents as compared to 70 for the whole of last year in the region.
During the same period, about 130 people sustained various degrees of injury in the accidents.
The Northern Regional Co-ordinator of the committee, Mr Sumani Mbo, described the accident figures as “very worrying and unprecedented in the region’s history”.
The latest accident occurred around Kukobila near Walewale where six members of the Fountain Gate Chapel, including the two daughters of the Head Pastor of the church, Rev Eastwood Anaba, lost their lives in a crash.
A couple of months ago, a similar accident along the Walewale Road claimed more than 35 lives when two passenger vehicles collided.
Mr Mbo attributed the accidents mainly to human error and advised road users to strictly abide by road traffic regulations and also exercise patience in their haste to reach their destinations.
Among the blunders identified as part of the causes of accidents in the region were speeding, illegal parking, intermittent break of the traffic lights and drug and alcohol abuse.
Other problems include the plying of the roads with faulty and rickety vehicles, lack of adequate road signs, inaction by law enforcement agencies to duly apprehend and prosecute road traffic offenders and the lack of co-ordination among various stakeholders on road safety.
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