The Federal Road Safety Corps has said that vehicles conveying humans and animals together should be impounded.
This was made known by the Corps Marshal of the agency, Mr Dauda Biu in a reaction to the death of 18 persons in a crash involving an articulated vehicle on the Abuja-Kaduna Highway on Sunday,
27 others also sustained injuries in the tragedy that involved 65 persons.
The crash which occurred at about 5:20am happened when the driver of the articulated vehicle, overloaded with goods and humans and travelling at a high speed, lost control and fell into a ditch on the highway.
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Biu in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by Deputy Corps Marshal Bisi Kazeem said:
“To reverse the trend, all Sector Commanders are to set up joint task forces to impound trailers and trucks carrying humans and animals. The courts should prosecute the drivers'
Kazeem said Biu has instructed sector commanders to set up joint task forces in synergy with sister agencies to conduct special operations to stem the practice.
He averred that it was expedient that agencies like the police, the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, the Army, and Vehicle Inspection Officers, collaborate together to curb the menace.
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