Numbers of drunk drivers worry Daka
Numbers of drunk drivers worry DakaBy Noel Sichalwe
Tuesday April 10, 2007 [04:00]
TRANSPORT minister Peter Daka yesterday said the number of drivers that drove while drunk was still high. Daka said on Sunday that he conducted a road inspection together with his officers from the ministry to check on drunk drivers, the fitness of vehicles and roadworthiness of motor vehicles.
He said the situation on the road was serious because the number of drunk drivers was still high despite much sensitisation on the dangers of driving while drunk.
Daka said motorists who were drunk on the road were inconveniencing a lot of people and ultimately contributed to the high number of accidents.
He said government wanted to stop the inconveniences on the road and protect the lives of people especially those that used public transport.
"We want to stop these activities happening on the road," Daka said. "From this inspection we conducted, the number of people that drive while drunk was still very high and this is causing problems to other motorists. When somebody is drunk, they have very little regard for other road users. "
Daka said he discovered that people were too excited by the holiday euphoria and that they wanted to do as they pleased on the road. He said the exercise would spread across the country in order to avoid the loss of innocent passengers' lives. He said his ministry further wanted to control the minibuses that stopped anywhere to pick passengers.
He said the minibuses' frequent stoppages at any point where they found people were also contributing to road inconveniences that resulted in accidents.
"When somebody does something like this to you, you feel like you should come out and fight," Daka said. "But what we are doing is to reduce this problem by controlling the movement of vehicles on the roads." Daka said the officers impounded a lot of vehicles that were driven by drunk drivers, those which were not road worthy and others that contravened various traffic rules.
He was happy that the introduction of breathalysers was helping in identifying people that were driving vehicles while in a drunken state. He said even government officers that wanted to use official vehicles needed permission from transport officers within their ministries to use them on non-working days.
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