---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alfred Lokuji <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:46:04 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [jfdinfo] Three killed, dozens injured in road accident near Juba To: [email protected]
Dear Readers, We have drivers whose only concern is to beat time, not the safefy of the passengers and respect for human dignity - whether as a passenger in a public vehicle or the back-seater in a Hammer! We have police, in their hundreds in Juba, harrassing commercial vehicles at every stop, as if these pose the greatest danger to the Republic of South Sudan - when the most dangerous suspects to the health and security of RSS are in offices comoflaged as retired members of this or other shade of khaki. Are there plans to put traffic police on our highways - not to harrass, extort and impede the smooth flow of commerce, but to assure the health and safety of road userss? Send senior traffic police officers to lift a page from the Tanzanian experience. When a bus or any public vehicle leaves a police check point, the time of departure, milage, etc are checked. At the next police check, two or three hours from the last point of departure, that logbook is checked to ensure the driver has not been testing the speed limits of the bus. If found to have arrived much earlier than the expected time of arrival, it is a clear indication of overspeeding. Messing with the speedometer is ofcourse, a crime; as much as is altering logbook records. If this is an expensive measure, put a a disciplined traffic officer in every bus for the next one month and evaluate the results - of course provided the officer is doing his job -and not taking advantage for personal gain. Alfred Sebit Lokuji Vivacel: (+249) (0) 955 605 605 / 955 213 353 Sudani (+249) (0) 129 084 550 "Those who cannot remember history are condemned to repeat it!" George Santayana. Corollary: Truth-telling in repentance is a necessary condition for Reconciliation --- On Wed, 7/27/11, Jean-Francois Darcq <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jean-Francois Darcq <[email protected]> Subject: [jfdinfo] Three killed, dozens injured in road accident near Juba To: Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 1:14 AM Three killed, dozens injured in road accident near Juba * Article * Comments (5) email Email print Print pdfSave separation increase decrease separation separation * * * * July 26, 2011 (JUBA) - Three people were killed and nine injured in a fatal bus accident, which occurred at Naro, located 40km east of Juba, the South Sudan capital, eye witnesses say. The Bakulu bus number UAL 727H was destined for Uganda when it collided with an oil tanker carrying plate number CE 803A heading in the opposite direction at about 8:30am on Tuesday along the Juba-Nimule road. Those injured have been rushed to Juba teaching hospital. An eye witness, who spoke to Sudan Tribune largely blamed the driver of the tanker, whom he accused of failure to stay on his side of the road but this has not been confirmed. The manager of Bakulu buses, who, only identified himself as Okello, preferred not to discuss the matter later, when contacted. The incident comes less than two months ago after a similar incident left over 30 people dead and several people injured. The accident occurred when another Bakulu bus collided with Baby coach along the same route. In March this year, over 30 people were injured in another incident when a bus destined for Juba overturned in Koro village, about 8km south of Uganda’s northern district of Gulu. (ST) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JFD info" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jfdinfo?hl=en.
