FRSC intercepts 40 vehicles over non- installation of speed limiter
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Badagry Unit Command says it intercepted and impounded no fewer than 40 vehicles for non-compliance with the use of speed limiting devices along Agbara Badagry Motorway in the last two months.
Mr. Williams Manga, the Unit Commander, made the disclosurein an interview on Wednesday in Lagos.
He saidthe drivers of the intercepted vehicles were fined and thencompelled to install the device before their vehicles were released to them.
Manga said the enforcement ofthe use of speed limiters was one of the measures being taken by thecorps to reduce accidents on the motorway.
“Between June and July, we intercepted40 vehicles and asked their owners to install limiters before we handed the vehicles over to them. The enforcement of the use of speed limiters is one of the measures we are taking to check rising cases of accidents on the Lagos-Badagry Motorway, especially between the Age-Mowo and Mowostretch of the road.
“Our personnel workfrom 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily on the motorway to carry out enforcement and ensureroad crashes are reduced to a minimal level,“ he said.
Manga advisedmotorists, especially commercial bus drivers, against exceeding the approved speed limit, saying speedingwas one of the major causes of accidents on the motorway.
He alsourged passengers to always caution their drivers at high speeds while travelling on the motorway, saying doing so would reduce accidents.
The Unit Commander warned against night driving, saying the practise was fraught with danger.
“Some motorists don’t know how to drive at night; this road is not wide, and when you put on your full light, it could affect a coming vehicle and result in an accident.
“The contractor handing the project just constructed a lane and left the other undone,so vehiclescoming to Lagos and those going to Badagry use just one lane, and this has resulted in manyaccidents along the Agbara-Badagry motorway," he said.
The Unit Commander said the corps had been engaging commercial bus drivers and transport unions on how to drive safely on the motorway.
“We meetwith leaders and members of the National Union Road Transport Workers (NURTW) in Seme, whose vehicles mostly take the motorway, on safe driving.
“We always tell the drivers to slow down when they are around the Age-Mowo area because that area is prone to accidents.
“We also meet with other stakeholders and advise them to always make use of their speed limiter.
“Every morning before six o’clock, our personnel visit parks and garages to give them what we call ‘Early Morning Cry’.
”We gather passengers and drivers and talk to them about the risk of speeding, the dangers associated with overloading, and the importance of a speed-limiting device in their vehicles. We are doing all this to check for crashes on that motorway,” he said.
Supreme News reports that the Age-Mowo part of the Lagos-Badagry motorway has recorded a number of fatal accidents since construction work started on the highway in 2020.
On March 9, 2022, five people were burned beyond recognition while three others sustained injuries in a fatal accident around the Age-Mowo part of the motorway.
Also On June 17, 2022, two members of the same family were burned to death in an accidentaround the same portion of the motorway.
On July 9, this year, 15 people, including a four-month-old baby, who were travelling to the Republic of Benin on a commercial bus with registration number MUS 411 XU carrying 19 passengers, died in an auto accident at the same Age-Mowo portion of the motorway.
