NTSA should clamp down on rogue drivers

The relentless spate of road accidents is a national disaster that can longer be wished away or treated as normal. 

The National Transport Safety Authority was established to ensure road accidents are investigated, findings made public and policy and administrative changes effected to save lives.

The rate at which road accidents are causing economic and social mayhem in families has reached a scale that calls for urgent and serious action by the law enforcement teams responsible.

Yesterday, yet another grim crash happened on the Nakuru-Naivasha stretch in which nine people, including two minors, died, for no reason other than driver negligence.

In the lead up to the Christmas festivities, the NTSA came up with plans to ban heedless drivers with a history of recklessness because the agency has a speed monitoring system that maps just about every national road.

We have said it here before that when accidents kill in excess of 4,000 people every year, that tragedy must qualify for a national disaster.

The deaths and maimings on Kenya’s roads can only lead to one conclusion.

A large majority of bus and matatu drivers are unfit to drive on national highways.

Quote of the day: “Unless a man is master of his soul, all other kinds of mastery amount to little.”—26th US president Theodore Roosevelt Jr died on January 6, 1919