The statement issued recently by Police Commander of
Iringa Region, Ramadan a Mungi on the peak of the celebrations of the road
safety week in Iringa shows no one (taxi) even cause accidents and deaths from
January to December this year.
RPC mentioned vehicles
causing deaths in Iringa that are private cars, and many others that
goes to Dar es Salaam, Iringa, Mbeya on the highway.
He said the trucks are second place by accident causing
death in the region, followed by motorcycles (boda boda) and buses and the
minor (bus) that provide passenger transportation services in various areas in
Iringa.
Mungi stated a goal of Iringa region for this year was
to reduce accidents by 20 percent, an increase of 2 percent, from 18 percent
last year.
He said accidents happening in various areas cannot be
completed in one operation but to improve existing policies and strategies to
involve different ministries dealing with accidents caused by vehicles.
He named those ministries that include the ministries
of home affairs, ministry of works, transport, finance, energy and mining,
trade and industry, regional administration (Tamisemi), health, law and constitution
and labor and employment.
In the beginning, Regional Traffic of Iringa (RTO),
Leopold Fungu said traffic accidents have been caused by decay of vehicles,
human error and non compliance with the rules and principles of road safety.
"Many accidents occur because of the speed, the
negligence of road use, the problem of not knowing the rules and traffic laws,
drunkenness and tall grass along the road," he said.
In response to the accident in here,
RTO said placement of bumps and road signs is being undertaken in
parallel with the arrest of cars by using precisely the motion, inspect
passenger vehicles and cargo, testing drunken drivers and remove the bad cars
off the road.
Referring to data traffic offenses in the past eight
months, last year and this year, he said during last year there were 95
accidents this year is no accident 116 so far.
About accident deaths, said during last year were 57
this year have occurred 92, while injuries accidents decrease from 28 to 24
this year.
He said while the number of people who died falling
from 86 to 41 people, wounded have been reduced from 59 to 58 before the
closing year.
About common mistakes RTO said 18,078 different
offenses happened last year, this year has increased to 25,009.
In the event that his official guest was Mayor of the
Municipality of Iringa, Amani Mwamwindi, RTO thanked the Chairman of the Committee on
Road Safety Iringa Region, Salim Asas for donating two cars, alcohol detecting device and 30 speed
devices for detecting speeding drivers
to the police force.
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