This thing is no joke. On Saturday two weeks ago, I was in a road accident on Valley road at the NPC flyover after a chap driving a black Toyota fielder came out Ralph Bunche going the wrong direction (its a one way road) joined valley road out of the slip road, which is illegal, drove across a double yellow line (which is illegal), changed his mind when he saw oncoming traffic and decided to turn back and head towards the Nairobi hospital junction.
Luckily, i rammed the Idiot at just below fifty coming down the hill (i had seen him and had time to break and swerve) i got him at the passenger door, totaling the car. (mine)
I spent a day in hospital, while a passenger i had with me spent three days in a neck brace. The chap is now driving again on Kenyan roads after the police let him go and declared the case under investigation 'pending' perpetually.
He was very lucky. I usually drive that car particularly fast in order to stay ahead of idiots like him and truck drivers. ( a friend who had passed me a few hundred meters before had stopped to inquire whether we were okay on account of our slow speed.
This situation is driven by simple impunity. the truck driver DO NOT obey traffic rules, they over load, are unroadworthy, tired overworked and generally have a bad attitude.
They harass other drivers all the time and I can tell you THAT I WITNESSED severally when they harassed some government bigwig without knowing and instant justice was meted out by his bodyguards.
So what about the rest of us????
I can tell you that it is now OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT POLICY THAT ANYTHING OVER 28 TONNES SHOULD AND MUST BE TRANSPORTED VIA RAIL. The government has made it clear it intends to achieve a significant load shift by December.
why enforcement to get this monsters off Kenyan road hasn't began I don't know. Or maybe it was just lip service?
That is not the worst part of this whole shebang however. Imagine for one moment the fact that your kids in that wobbly school bus have to competed for road space with tankers full of all manner of flammable goods.
And for those who didnt know, the reason they are constructing a wall besides every rail line in sight is so that they can get those heavy trucks off our roads and leave us to deal with the other small toyota driving 'iDIOTS' who never bothered to learn the traffic code.
and by the way after thirty days, i am taking it upon myself to deal with the idiot if the police will not have sorted him out.
That to me seems a bit of a solution. my way. what yours?
my two cents.