FOUR people have died in three separate road traffic accidents in
Eastern Province.
Eastern Province Police Commissioner Alex Chilufya told journalists
on Monday that the latest accident happened on Sunday around 14:00
hours along Chipata – Mfuwe Road at Dalala Farms.
Mr Chilufya said the Higer Bus registration driven by Watson Mwale
aged 25 of Kapata Township in Chipata District hit into two male
cyclists who were trying to cross the road.
He has named the two deceased as Charles Mbewe aged 18 and Langson
Banda both of Underson Village in Chief Chikuwe’s area.
Mr Chilufya said Langson died on the spot while Charles who was
riding the bicycle died upon reaching Chipata Central Hospital.
He said that another accident occurred in Nyimba District on Saturday
along the Great East Road in Chikonda area.
Mr Chilufya said Mabvuto Phiri aged 38 who was a passenger together
with Leonard Lungu aged 23 both of Kanono Village in Chief Ndake’s
area died on the spot after the vehicle they were in over-turned owing
to excessive speed.
He said that the third fatal accident happened on Thursday near
Kagunda Primary School in Chipata District involving a motorcyclist,
Jimmy Nkhoma, of Lufu Village in Chief Chinyaku’s area.
He said because of over speeding, Nkhoma lost control of his bike and
hit into a stationary bicycle before hitting into a 10 year old boy
who sustained injuries.
Mr Chilufya said Nkhoma died on spot after his bike over-turned.
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JUST A GENERAL OBSERVATION…..
“…due to excessive speed”. How often do we here this? It’s like ALL accidents now are caused by excessive speed. My foot……. You are not going to hear things like , … it was due to the road not having visible road markings or there is no proper signage on the road for motorists to know of any danger ahead. Shame on hypocrites!! There must also be a way RTSA should remove broken down trucks from the road.
Your head should tell you that you cannot blame the road because a good driver will drive carefully if the road is not good.
“Excessive speed” would normally refer to the “conditions” of the road.
You must drive according to conditions.
@CK4LIFE,
You have a point there. Any honest and experienced licenced driver will agree with you that it cannot be driver’s fault ALL THE TIME. Well spoken.
everyone has copied useless Zindaba Soko’s way of reasoning. according to soko every accident is due to overspeeding yet in the western world scientific investigation is called upon to investigate every accident. soko earns free money.
Take for instance where due to poor workmanship or mixing of the asphalt the road surface becomes uneven it will stay like that without measures taken to warn motorists that they are approaching a stretch of uneven road surface! Such road surface warping is found in many places on our roads making one wonder if there are any ongoing road inspections to facilitate temporal warning signs until repairs are undertaken! Road users pay taxes where does the money go? This also brings me to the point of lack of suppressing competition amidst our lawyers for such are missed opportunities where due to negligence by those responsible for roads lives are continuously being lost!
Correction, delete “lack of suppressing” to read:… This also brings me to the point of suppressed competition amidst our lawyers for such are missed opportunities where due to negligence by those responsible for roads lives are continuously being lost!
JUST A GENERAL OBSERVATION…..
“…due to excessive speed”. How often do we hear this? It’s like ALL accidents now are caused by excessive speed. My foot……. You are not going to hear things like , … it was due to the road not having visible road markings or there is no proper signage on the road for motorists to know of any danger ahead. Shame on hypocrites!! There must also be a way RTSA should remove broken down trucks from the road.
Can an African learn or do anything to improve in life? I’m asking this question yes, because we don’t seem to have any capacity to develop from say point (A) to point (B) taking in lessons of experiences from point (A). If anything, we always seem to go backwards. We need to reflect everyday on how we live our everyday life. In short, how can we do better next time? People, RTSA whatever there got to be a turning point. This roller coaster way of life is sickening.
Accidents even in villages.Is it because they are seeing roads for the first time. Rest in peace.
Then what has RTSA solved by banning PSV and good vehicles from travelling at night?an accident is an accident which can happen anytime.only God knows when!!
Don’t blame God. Take him out of it! You drive like a lunatic you blame that God new it was gonna happen?
Ahaaaaagh!
I said banning night driving is a decision for retarded people.May I now ask when day driving ban will be effected because people are still dying.Remember in the sixties and early seventies ,there were two driving licences. The ordinary one which enables one to move a vehicle forward and the other which makes one competent to drive on a gazetted road.You don’t teach driving in bemba or Nyanja and think such can use a gazetted road and understand does and songs of a technical machine like a vehicle.
We had an MP under Chiluba who learnt driving by watching his driver.At the time of his vehicle as an MP ,he died unceremoniously trying to join great east road from Parliament. He waited for traffic which never gave him Chance and joined the road with eyes closed.That was the end of luxury.
Advocate you have made my day. How did you know that he closed his eyes?
When a vehicle is traveling at “excessive speed”, why do passengers not advise the driver to take it easy?
Try it and you’ll be chewed by the other passengers. What I normally do is politely ask the driver to allow me to get off his bus.
Night driving? No! Second hand tyres? No! I can go on and on without for once blaming it on tyres or night driving. As I see it: wrong characters are at the wheel. Period. Think back to that Post Bus carnage of Chibombo to believe me, or that nasty Noah Bus accident of Chisekesi Southern Province; or the Kapiri head-on collision that wiped out an entire family traveling back from a CB wedding. Only the other day I saw a Zombie powered by all manner of substances toying with 17 lives by driving a minibus. Mean while we are busy searching in wrong places for the cause of accidents on our highways and by-ways. We have bad eggs on the road because we have rotten eggs at RATSA.
Night driving????Saili .L be serious with the roads Ndola Kitwe dual carriage way road markings just in few places and very poor signage. You will see 80 Km per hour and next you will see is the security officers with white caps on the road that you are over-speeding. Its not always that we make mistakes but the poor state of the roads are a major contributor….
The heading says “four people die…” I have counted five from the story.
Tragic again. We have said that so many times on this forum. It can’t all be “excessive speed” or “driving at night”. In fact the ban on night driving for buses and trucks is as foolish as they come. Firstly, its NOT the solution. Secondly, it has a huge impact on the economy. It all comes with a lack of processes, properly ‘manned’ institutions and corruption – resulting in the wrong persons behind the wheel and wrong decisions by those at RTSA or government policy makers. All major roads (Lusaka – Mongu, Lusaka – Copperbelt, Lusaka – Chipata and Lusaka – Livingstone) should be dual-carriageway all the way. No one who shouldn’t have a licence should be given one. Clamping hard on speed, drink-driving…
… etc. should be there, but sorting out the roads, road sense education and only allowing properly “graduated drivers” on the road should be at the base.
Police are to blame because they are only interested in collecting bribes from erring drivers and defective vehicles. We have this vehicles called “ifya milando “. These vehicles don’t have any basic safety requirements to allow them on our roads but police simply turn a blind eye after being oiled by the owners of these death carriers.
LT – so the word f**lish is offensive? My contribution above was being ‘moderated’ and has been reduced from a whole big paragraph to three lines? I have a mind to use another word, but perhaps I will keep that to myself. Unbelievable!