Expert Proffers Solution To Incessant Road Accident

Chief Consultant at Menet Engineering Consultancy Services, Dr Terry Mene, has urged Governments at all levels to take the issue of road accidents seriously and start its eradication by ensuring proper training of drivers as well as providing proper road signs and markings.

Mene, spoke at a 3-day intensive Defensive Driving Training Course at the headquarter offices of the Niger Delta Basin Development Authority (NDBDA) in Port Harcourt, maintaining that loss of lives and property to roads accidents could be eradicated.

Dr Mene, who supervised the training of the 14 drivers enrolled by the authority’s management, lauded the vision and passion of the Managing Director of the NDBDA, Tonye David-West, whom he described as a rare public servant.

Mene, who advised that government must take road signing and markings very serious, as they are the primary guide for drivers on the roads, charged that authorities must ensure that driving schools, where training of drivers are done are properly supervised to ensure that the right and proper things are being taught prospective drivers.

“My advice, first and foremost, is to ensure that the driving schools are properly supervised to ensure that they teach road signs and road marking. I also advice the federal, states and council governments to ensure that their areas are properly signed and marked because it is the road signs that guide drivers in driving; it will tell the driver when to give way and when to go on and these are not there for now, not even the centre lines are properly marked.

“I know that this is an area in this country which people don’t take seriously and of course, most of our roads are also naked; they have no road signs, neither road markings, which is the next thing I wish to take on with government at all levels, so that they would ensure that our roads are properly signed and marked”, he said.

Speaking on the recently concluded safety training at the NDBDA, Mene said “it was a great thing to have a Managing Director of a government agency getting so concerned about the rate Nigerians die on the roads that he decided to train his drivers.

“What does he get back in return? The rate of accidents will go back to almost zero, which will then help insurance premium because the more accidents you get, the higher your insurance. The benefit is that it saves lives, it saves the authority’s property, which are cars and it will also save money because the insurance premium will begin to go down”, he said.

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