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Continuous enforcement exercises are having significant impact – Traffic Chief
Newly appointed Traffic Chief Superintendent Hugh Denhert has stated that road death figures for 2012 and the previous year have indicated that continuous enforcement exercises are having significant impact.
Newly Appointed Traffic Chief Superintendent Hugh Denhert
As regards figures for last year, there was a total of 102 accidents resulting in 110 deaths, and in 2011, the force recorded 106 accidents resulting in 115 deaths. According to Denhert, so far for the year the force has recorded 6 accidents resulting in 7 deaths.
The Traffic Chief believes that the decrease is as a result of the Force’s vigilance on the roadways. He however noted that a number of motorcyclists were killed and further investigations revealed that most were unlicenced.
“What we find is that persons have a tendency to just go to a friend knowing that they do not have a licence and they would say ‘I’m just borrowing your bike to make a spin’ and then there is an accident.”
Denhert explained that they will be stepping up their campaign against unlicenced motorcyclists. He added that the Force’s statistics also showed a high number of occupants in vehicles being killed as a result of the non-compliance with the seatbelt law.
“We have been enforcing the seatbelt law, but persons don’t seem to understand the importance of the seatbelt in a vehicle and we find that this is a major problem.”
Further, the Traffic Chief said the Force will continue with its many road safety awareness campaigns which include the road safety talks in schools, radio programmes and other outreach exercises.
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