When any holiday period approaches, road safety is crucial to how it plays out.
For this reason, there will be intensified countrywide crackdown by the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) in conjunction with traffic police starting March 22 till after Easter.
The step up will be on all public service vehicles operating on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway.
“Road safety will enforcement and there will be patrol vehicles which will specifically be focusing on areas that are core to reduction of fatal crashes,” noted part of statement by NTSA.
The crackdown comes in the wake of incidences of grisly road accident witnessed along the major highways in Nakuru.
For example on Tuesday February 9 along the Nakuru-Nairobi highway within St Mary’s hospital, an accident involving a matatu and a personal car claimed four lives.
According to earlier reports, so far over 60 vehicles along the Gilgil highway have been impounded for flouting traffic rules among them speeding, overloading, unroadworthy vehicles among other offences.
Among other Nakuru’s notorious roads is the Salgaa stretch which is famous as one of the risky roads for vulnerable road users.
However, last week, Transport CS James Macharia unveiled 40 patrol vehicles and five ambulances for NTSA to enhance road safety. The 45 vehicles were flagged off to be used for patrols by the National Transport Safety Authority in combating road carnage countrywide.
The event took place in Uhuru Park, Nairobi.