ACCIDENTS ALONG THE MUVI TV CORNER

Dear Editor,

IN the wake of the recent rise in the number of fatal road accidents involving many casualties in our motherland, I beg all drivers and fellow road users: Please let us drive carefully and at right speeds. Umoyo ni mame.

In the same vein, as a duty to our human family, I take this opportunity to call upon fellow concerned citizens, the Road Development Agency and RTSA to take very serious actions, as soon as possible in stopping the frequent road accidents along the Muvi TV crooked corner, by UNZA Road in Lusaka.

Almost every month, at least, more than three serious accidents occur there. Many vehicles swerve right past the curbs into the drainage, hammering the speed trap pole and other poles there in the process.

Some cars fly and crash into Muvi TV’s “invisible wall” fence. That corner gets many by surprise. Even some seasoned drivers some nights have failed to negotiate with that corner.

While the two short poles that were planted on the same Muvi TV side of the road have already been crashed out of sight by vehicles, all the remaining tall poles there stand stooped and damaged and there is debris down in the drainage there - perhaps as a constant reminder to pedestrians as to how frequent accidents occur there.

Muvi TV management too needs to take up this matter with great gravity for, while God forbid, one day another car having lost all control may fly right deep in the Muve TV premises and may cause an uncalled for disaster.

Indeed, something urgently needs and must be done to curb the frequent road accidents along the Muvi TV crooked corner.

Can slumps or speed humps be planted there? What are we going to do? It is pure common sense: We do not have to wait any longer for four or one more precious lives to be lost there for us to take serious corrective steps.