AT least 35 people have been killed while 141 others were injured in road accidents during this Easter holidays, a police spokesperson has said.
Report by Kudzai Chimhangwa
A total of 323 road accidents have been recorded since the beginning of the holidays compared to 152 reported during the same time last year.
Police spokesperson superintendent Paul Nyathi attributed the increase in road accidents to negligence on the part of drivers.
“Although we have adequately deployed manpower on the roads over the holidays, there are some drivers who are travelling late at night in a bid to avoid police,” said Nyathi. “They then carry more people than required resulting in some of the accidents we are seeing.”
Nyathi said eight people travelling in a Toyota Ipsum were killed in Mvuma in a head-on collision with a Marcopolo bus at 11pm on Friday. “We are appealing to drivers out there to stick to road regulations and abide by the law as we will not stop in bringing people who violate the law to book,” said Nyathi.
Meanwhile, transport fares remained stable during the second day of the Easter holidays as a number of people had already travelled to their rural homes the previous day.
A snap survey by The Standard on Saturday carried out at Mbare Musika showed that transport fares had not changed.
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A bus driver, who plies the Harare- Mkodzongi route, Elisma Mupoperi said it was business as usual without any adjustment to fares.
“Look, it was only passengers who came to the rank early today and yesterday who felt the slight increases as a number of people wanted to travel at those times,” he said.
The journey from Harare to Mazoe was pegged at US$2, Harare to Glendale US$6, while the Harare-Chiredzi route had gone down to the usual US$15 from the previous day’s charge of US$20. The Harare-Mutare route was pegged at US$8 from the previous day’s charge of US$10.
