A speeding Road Transport and Safety Agency motor vehicle has hit and killed on the spot a pedestrian at 16 miles on the Great North road.
According to eye witnesses, a RSTA vehicle registration number ALX 2168 was over speeding when it he the pedestrian named as Chembe Mangombo of Moomba village some 20 kilometres away from Lusaka.
Meanwhile, police officers manning a road block some 500 meters away from the accident scene expressed shock at how a RASTA officer who had few minutes earlier reported another speeding motorist could hit a pedestrian a few meters away from check point.
Police officers at the scene of the accident refused to comment on camera but told a NAIS Journalist that it was obvious from the damage caused to the car that the driver of the RTSA driver was over speeding.
Meanwhile, local people have called on government to put up speed humps at the spot saying this is the second accident within two weeks.
What is required are pedestrian barriers. Roads are for speeding cars not drunken pedestrians. Pedestrians should be given safe places to cross motorways. However, Zambians love jaywalking. On Kafue Road, the pedestrian bridge is used by traffic spectators and for suicides.
Iwe ndiwe ofunta hahahahahahahaha. Great ideas that they should apply.
What was is the recommended speed and what speed was he doing? Are RATSA not above speed limits? There is a possibility that the cyclist surprised him. Story inclusive. The loss of life is regreted.
The only law we respect in Zambia is that of holding by elections.
There’s no delay or shortage of resources for by elections…
Everything else is left to individual interpretation.
We don’t even value life as sacred unless it’s that of a politician.
I doubt this RTSA officer will be arrested or face any charges. He is likely to lie that he was chasing after a motorist and they let him go
Just look at the dirt and filth in our country and no one cares. What a shame
The police were supposed to ticket the RSTA officer on the spot, or arrest him, it’s the law and it is right.
The RTSA officer should be arrested, fines and suspended from driving for 7 years. No one should be above the law. Life lost by this drunkard and over speeding officer. Sad for the family of the dead.
You have 100 km/h signs in the chelstone area. How can you have such speed limits in a residential area for drivers with dangerous driving skills?
COMEONE DID YOU SAY RATSA I CANT BELIEVE THIS IT CAN ONLY HAPPEN IN ZAMBIA
….’he had just reported a speeding car’…..was the RTSA car pursuing the same reported speeding car…??…now was the RSTA car on sirens….??….anyway…on siren or not he still committed an offence….recently a police officer in UK was convicted for causing death as he rammed in a car at traffic lights while on sirens rushing to a call out….
….residents already calling for speed humps at the spot….???…..by year 2040…we will end up with a highway with speed humps every 500mtrs….from Lvnstone to Solwezi….villages or is it human dwellings are all along the highway…if its not animals including stray or un accompanied dogs….it will be children walking by as close as half a metre to the edge of the highway…..
Am of a view that the goverment introduces the highway code in schools and other public insititutions, looking at the rate of accidents its very alarming, its unfortunate that such a thing happens to a RTSA officer who are supposed to show and lead safe driving, and why should they be chase overspeeding vehicles when they have Data of all vehicles?