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| The remains of the wrecked body of the matatu after the accident, police has yet arrested the driver allegedly responsible |
A Langas Matatu Sacco bus today has ran into a private Toyota vehicle claiming lives of five members of the same family, the bus which was heading towards Langas from Eldoret town accidentally ran into a Toyota vehicle which was headed to Eldoretalong the Kisumu- Eldoret road early at five in the morning thereby claiming the lives of all those in the Toyota vehicle plus an extra pedestrian along the way.
Road accidents has in the recent past been aligned to the carelessness in the part of the drivers, Some of the drivers have been found in cases of alcoholic abuse before they can embark in their driving exercise claiming this would keep them active all through the exercise. This is actually in contrary to the actual line of duty that should be followed during the driving course, which in reality demands concentration on both the part of the driver and the pedestrians.
Most times when road accidents are talked about, be it far away from our proximity, we tend to receive such unbecoming and unwelcoming news with great displeasure, within shorter durations of time, people tend to especially the drivers tend to take caution a factor that suffers ruin seriously as it doesn’t end up into their normal practice in the daily life, such drivers end up forgetting about such occurrences and embark in their normal daily routines filled with recklessness with most of the drivers finding themselves in bars and restaurants abusing alcoholic brews which in the long run make them have the in ability to concentrate fully, the irony with this is that these drivers also claim that in this condition they are able to concentrate.
This problem with drug abuse has been proven beyond doubts by medical practitioners of being a major health hazard to human health and cannot allow its abusers to concentrate as the people might have claimed so. When talked about, drug abuse, since its birth has contributed to a serious ruin to the people’s lives, it is a major contributor to most of the accidents that have ever been witnessed, after using such drugs, and the driver is unable to concentrate and tend to hallucinate them viewing the most dangerous attempts as just mere ones with such attempts as applying emergency breaks along the round-about rather than doing the right thing to do in order to allow for the free flow of traffic.
Even though the accidents caused by such laziness and poor behavior among the drivers along the roads continue claiming lives, people have never learned to be keen on how they behave along the roads. Most times, pedestrians have been hit by speeding vehicles when they try to cross over the roads at accidental points rather than following the foot bridges if not the zebra crossing lanes, this behavior has led to loss of several lives along the roads.
Over speeding, overloading and overlapping especially along the busy roads in this present century ought to have been the issue of the past, under the glaring influence of corruption among the police and drivers along the roads have seen such road missusers go unpunished by the rule of law even after claiming innocent lives, however this unbecoming behavior has continuously contributed to loss of several lives, but do they care?
Validating the accident yesterday, the chief commandant of the police Mr. Augustus mutia, yesterday attributed this accident to the carelessness of the driver of the bus as he had seriously overlapped, this was further attributed to the “sleeping in the job” by the traffic police who in the recent past has failed to take control of the roads, he ascertained to the public yesterday among whom were the angry members of Eldoret Technical Collage with whom one of them had also perished in the accident ,that the issue would be investigated and the driver who was in contrary to the traffic laws would be held to book.
The question is, for how long will we continue to witness such accidents with us being given poor and empty invalid promises of investigations which in the long run tend to end in the dark? Speaking to the chief patrol offer of Uasin Gishu district, the officer said that the issue of road misuse has become the order of the day with people such as the reckless drivers have ended up in cases where they cause accidents and end up walking unpunished for their misconducts, he promises that this wouldn’t be the order of the day during his tenure promising that all the trespassers would be brought down to book and won’t walk unpunished “we won’t seat back and watch the life of innocent citizens being claimed by carelessness among the drivers, we must take action against such misbehavior and in fact this wouldn’t be the order of the day anymore ” the pedestrians must also ensure that they take control of their movement along the roads in order to avoid such accidents where the pedestrians are hit by vehicles “the security of us along the road starts with you as an individual, these deaths cannot be witnessed along the roads if me and you are responsible enough even as we walk along the roads ” with this quote I also have a strong feeling that we can be very safe if we can do it as advised by the officer, do not allow any driver to drive recklessly , I would advice that you as an individual try always to raise your voice as high as possible if in any case the driver shows any of the misconducts along the roads, as pedestrians, we also need to walk along the roads with a lot of care and if we are to cross the road let us do this as much as possible along the footbridges and at zebra crossing points to help us ensure our safety along the roads
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