THIS year National Road Safety week was
marked in Arusha Region at Arusha City, where it was revealed that at least
three motorcycle accidents occur on daily basis in the country, and mainly
claim lives, it has been learnt. Speaking during the climax of the function
held at the Sheikh Amri Abeid Stadium on Monday, the Regional Traffic Police
Commander, Nuru Selemani said that, there were 615 motorcycle accidents
recorded in Arusha between January and October this year at the rate of three
mishaps per day. Commenting on that, the Arusha District Commissioner, Mr
Gabriel Daqarro revealed that plans are underway to start registering
motorcycles and their riders in the urban precincts to ensure that all the
operators can be traced, trained and hold driving licences. “Because at the
moment, anybody who can ride a motorcycle can become a bodaboda operator,” said
Daqarro.
Overall, the number of road and motor accidents that have occurred in
the region in the last ten months of 2016 has reached 1692. “Last year the
total number of accidents clocked 2011 by December,and imagine this year two
more months are still left before we close it, thus the 1692 figure can still
increase,” he said. The DC said that a total of 68 accidents claimed innocent
lives in the road mishaps that occurred within the first ten months of this
year, where a total of 1692 motor accidents got reported in the region, adding
that the crashes resulted into injuries of 725 people. He said that causes of
road accidents are many, but cited the leading ones as a result of human errors
accounting to 75 percent, poor road conditions taking 10 percent and the rest
on faulty vehicles with 15 percent. While 615 motorcycle accidents occurred
this year, last year it recorded 763 accidents out of the total 2011ones that
were reported. In another development, motorists in Arusha have also reported
to have been complaining of series of police stops along the region’s highways
including the officers harassing them with questions which suggest bribes.
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