Carnage continues because of lazy traffic cops

Law enforcement officers need to get off their rear ends and do their jobs, writes from Mokopane.

TBasil Duke-Norris

he carnage on our roads shall continue as long as law enforcement departments remain unfocused and reluctant to fulfil their responsibilities of maintaining discipline on our roads and highways.

Accidents do not occur at speed traps, accidents do not occur at toll gates, accidents do not occur at road blocks. However, this is where the law enforcement officials are concentrated.

These many tragic accidents occur out of sight of where the socalled traffic cops are stationed, sitting behind cameras, hiding behind bushes, in the shade of bridges, pulling taxis off at toll gates and watching the traffic whizzing passed them at static points.

These cops need to get off their rear ends and do their jobs. They should be patrolling the highways and byways where the transgressions occur and confront and discipline offenders.

The bus, truck and minibus taxi drivers who are the major transgressors do as they please because they know that no one is going to bring them to book.

We have bus and truck drivers who think that their indicators give them right of way.

Many minibus taxi drivers have no discipline and demonstrate total disregard for traffic regulations. They stop in the middle of roads to pick up and drop off passengers. They pull out in front of fast-moving traffic. They overtake on blind rises and curves where overtaking is prohibited. And no action is taken against them.