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12:55 CAT | 27 Sep 2017
File photo / "If a vehicle is licensed to carry thirty [passengers], then thirty it will [carry]. This has to do with stability, the vehicle and all the technical aspects thereof. We want passengers to be an active part of the process, with the courage to tell drivers that their driving is not acceptable and could result in accidents such as those that we have been witnessing,"
The Minister of Transport and Communications convened all stakeholders in the area of passenger transport to announce on Sunday night that the government is to strengthen road safety measures to ensure that the law is fully observed by all.
“If a vehicle is licensed to carry thirty [passengers], then thirty it will [carry]. This has to do with stability, the vehicle and all the technical aspects thereof. We want passengers to be an active part of the process, with the courage to tell drivers that their driving is not acceptable and could result in accidents such as those that we have been witnessing,” Minister of Transport and Communications Carlos Mesquita said.
The minister used the occasion to express solidarity with the families of the victims of the accident which took place that day killing six people and injuring eleven, four of them seriously, on National Road number four (EN4) in Maputo province’s Tchumene neighbourhood.
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The crash involving an articulated lorry and a stationary minibus, and, according to police provincial command press officer Juárce Martins, the truck driver’s excess speed was the main cause of the accident.
More than twenty people died in road accidents in Maputo province this weekend.
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Source: Rádio Moçambique
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