Most of our drivers who drive on our highways do not know how to exposition their warning triangles when their vehicles get glitches in the middle of the road.
It is estimated that, the view distance of a warning triangle can be beyond 400 meters at day time and 500 meters at night. But most of our drivers fail to observe such directives; rather they place them on or some few meters from their vehicles.
This has resulted in number of accident, since the distance from the warning triangles to the broken down vehicles are so close that, the incoming drivers had no option than to collide with them. This behavior I think is as a result of illiteracy or semi-literate on the part of our drivers.
I therefore appeal to the authorities of Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) to start checking the distance between vehicles and warning triangles on our highways to help reduce road accident in the country. Francis Yanchira.
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