"Daily Nation" : WORLD OF FIGURES: Let’s stop blaming all road accidents only on speeding

My guess is that we have too many poorly maintained vehicles driven by poorly trained drivers on poorly designed roads. I think we will only begin to arrest our runaway accident rate when we stop blaming it on speeding. The problem is that speed is a combination of two quantities – distance travelled and time taken. Then we would compare that with the average speed of other moderately driven vehicles and make a fair judgement. By MUNGAI KIHANYAMore by this AuthorINEXPLICABLY, ALL ROAD accidents in Kenya are blamed on speeding.


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Missing road signs a major cause of accidents

Road signs are also missing at Mozang Crossing on Ferozpur Road while cat-eyes and road dividers on Canal Bank Road especially on the Jail Road and Ferozpur Road underpasses are missing. Visiting different city roads such as The Mall, Canal Bank Road, Multan Road, Ferozpur Road, Main Boulevard Allama Iqbal Town and etc, one can witness broken road dividers, missing cat-eyes, fainted road and traffic signs. "Road safety instruments such as lane marking, delineators, road signs, cat-eyes, guardrails and others form an integral part of any major road and should be ensured on any road," said Khurram Shah, a resident of Faisal Town. Similarly this road also lack U-turn signs on several other crossings due to which people faced inconvenience while at some places accidents are a routine because of these missing signs. Road safety signs are also missing on Main Boulevard Allama Iqbal Town, Main Boulevard Sabzazar housing society, Main Boulevard Johar Town and other societies.

Two people killed in two separate Kempton Park road accidents

A pedestrian was killed when he was hit by a vehicle on the Pretoria Road near Elgin Road in Kempton Park, ER24 spokesman Werner Vermaak said. Two people died in two separate road accidents, one an apparent hit-and-run, in Kempton Park in Ekurhuleni on Saturday morning, paramedics said. One of the vehicles overturned during the collision and ejected its driver. At about 7am, paramedics from ER24 arrived on the scene where they found the lifeless body of the man in the road. "Upon assessment, paramedics found that the driver was trapped underneath the overturned vehicle.


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