Yuletide: Speed Kills, Life Has No Duplicate – FRSC Warns Anambra Motorists

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The Federal Road Safety Corps has advised motorists in Anambra State to drive to stay alive to celebrate Christmas. It said that speed thrills but it also kills together with its attendant predicaments.

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The organization also admonished motorists to remember that life has no duplicate and that only the living celebrates Christmas and other such occasions.

Sector commander of the corps in Anambra state, CC Andrew Ayodele Kumapayi, who gave the admonition while reeling out plans for traffic control and crash prevention at flashpoints across the state this Yuletide, said one’s safety depends entirely on one and that it was better to be late than to be the late.

Kumapayi maintained that it was totally unacceptable to use phone while driving and that motorists should also consider other road users while using the roads to prevent avoidable crashes.

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Other salient issues motorists should take cognisance of while driving as enunciated by the sector commander include taking adequate rest before a journey, one must not drink and drive at the same time, one should drive with common sense speed, one should also install speed limiting device; that pedestrians should make use of zebra crossings or pedestrian bridges amongst numerous others.

The Anambra FRSC boss further disclosed that the corps has put some measures on ground to ensure seamless movement of vehicles in the state with particular emphasis on the Niger-Bridge.

He said the corps will ensure prompt deployment of traffic personnel to flashpoints; creation of two camps in Onitsha and Nteje where staff have been deployed from other commands to tackle the problems of incessant gridlocks at Head Bridge, Building, Tarzan and other traffic build up regions in the state.

Kumapayi also stated that the corps has established Special Intervention Unit on Gridlock and Obstructions ( SIUGO ) that would be on 24 hours vigilance to ensure no gridlock is experienced within Onitsha and other areas.

According to him, a motorised patrol has commenced since 4th December 2020 along Awka-Nteje Onitsha corridor which is amined at finding lasting solution to the issue of incessant crashes always experienced along the region.

He said another effort was a joint meeting comprising the Nigeria Police, the Federal Road Safety Corps as well as the Federal Controller of Works, was convened at the Police headquarters Asaba aimed at proffering measures towards ensuring traffic free flow this Yuletide within and outside Delta and Anambra states with particular emphasis on their Niger Bridge.

The sector commander however assured the motoring public in Anambra state that no one will ever sleep on the roads as a result of traffic gridlock because the corps was poised to ensure compliance to traffic rules and regulations.

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He also advised that the COVID-19 virus was still alive and that it was pertinent that the motoring public observed COVID-19 recommended protocols of regular hand washing, use of alcohol-based sanitizers at park terminals, vehicle social distancing as well as compulsory use of facemask.

It would be recalled also that the Federal Road Safety Corps in Anambra state has commenced its Ember Months Safety Campaign with the theme “Drive Safe, Stay Safe.

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