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Poor road signs blamed for accident
20 Mar 2013 at 10:35hrs | Views
The Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) says it is going to engage the Harare City Council to ensure road signs are put in place while round-abouts should be constructed at some known black spots to reduce road accidents.
The development follows a pile up of vehicles that occurred at the corner Harare Drive and Kirkman Drive this Tuesday morning.
According to some tobacco farmers, who were aboard a truck ferrying their crop to the auction floors, the driver did not know that Harare Drive has a blind end at the T-junction with Kirkman Drive.
With no road signs, the truck they were travelling on plunged into a ditch with three more drivers also suffering the same fate resulting in a four vehicle pileup.
TSCZ Marketing Manager, Proctor Utete said a number of accidents have occurred at the same place and called for all the stakeholders to come up with a lasting solution such as constructing a roundabout and erecting visible road signs.
When ZBC News arrived at the scene, there was a traffic jam after a truck which attempted to tow one of the vehicles also plunged into the same ditch.
While Police statistics show that most accidents are caused by human error, drivers argue many of such mistakes are caused by lack of proper road signs and poor state of roads.
The development follows a pile up of vehicles that occurred at the corner Harare Drive and Kirkman Drive this Tuesday morning.
According to some tobacco farmers, who were aboard a truck ferrying their crop to the auction floors, the driver did not know that Harare Drive has a blind end at the T-junction with Kirkman Drive.
TSCZ Marketing Manager, Proctor Utete said a number of accidents have occurred at the same place and called for all the stakeholders to come up with a lasting solution such as constructing a roundabout and erecting visible road signs.
When ZBC News arrived at the scene, there was a traffic jam after a truck which attempted to tow one of the vehicles also plunged into the same ditch.
While Police statistics show that most accidents are caused by human error, drivers argue many of such mistakes are caused by lack of proper road signs and poor state of roads.
Source - zbc
