The spate of horror road crashes involving PSV buses is
unacceptable and signals a barely functional NTSA, Traffic Police and other
authorities.
In the latest smash, on the Nakuru-Nairobi Highway at 3am on
Saturday, a bus and a trailer collided, killing 20 people.
This follows another two bus accidents in recent weeks.
It is astonishing how these accidents occur with such
frequency and there appear to be no consequences.
The Traffic cops should arrest and take off the roads the
kind of driver who crashes PSVs. The NTSA expend too many personnel, too much
equipment and money on waylaying private motorists on the way back from a night
out.
What was a trailer doing on the road at predawn on Saturday?
Isn’t there a regulation in force that requires trailers and other large
vehicles to find the nearest safe place or layby once night falls? What are the
police and NTSA doing about this particular incident?
All too often, the public is told, “investigations have been
launched”. And then nothing is ever heard of the issue again.
