Police blame passengers for road accidents

Daily News
Police blame passengers for road accidents
Daily News
PASSENGERS who fail to cooperate with the traffic police are at times to blame for the fatal road accidents in the country. This was said over the weekend by the Commanding Officer, Traffic Police Division, Deputy Commissioner of Police Mohammed Mpinga ...

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Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

IPPmedia

10 May

Traffic police boss bemoans deaths from road accidents

Traffic police boss bemoans deaths from road accidents
IPPmedia
At least 854 people are believed to have died and 4,144 others injured in 4,893 road accidents during the first quarter of this year. The Commanding Officer of Traffic Police, DCP Mohamed Mpinga, told The Guardian in in Dar es Salaam last week that from ...

 

10 years ago

Daily News

21 Dec

Passengers, agents in blame game over fares

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Passengers, agents in blame game over fares
Daily News
IN what others view as benevolent extortion, bus agents have blamed passengers travelling upcountry for the year-end festive season for hiked bus fares. A number of bus agents who spoke to th newspaper on Saturday said some passengers were ready to ...

 

10 years ago

GlobalPost

02 Sep

41 passengers injured in Tanzania road accident

41 passengers injured in Tanzania road accident
GlobalPost
DAR ES SALAAM, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Forty-one people were seriously injured Tuesday when their bus overturned at Kiyegeya Kariakoo in Morogoro region, medical authorities said. The Berega hospital medical officer, Alfred Chipunda, said five of the injured ...
Clyde & Co | An overview of the road infrastructure in TanzaniaLinex Legal (press release) (registration)

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11 years ago

Daily News

27 Feb

Mob blocks road, steals from passengers in Mbeya

Mob blocks road, steals from passengers in Mbeya
Daily News
A GROUP of unidentified people blocked the Mbeya/Njombe main road before stealing from passengers in Mbarali District, Mbeya Region, on Monday night. "The mob used different traditional weapons to attack the passengers after they had blocked the road ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

05 Apr

300 passengers stranded at Ubungo as road rules bite

More than 300 passengers planning to travel up-country got stranded yesterday at Ubungo Bus Terminal after the buses they were to travel with arrived late in the city.

 

9 years ago

IPPmedia

27 Sep

Four perish in road accidents

Four perish in road accidents
IPPmedia
Four people died in separate incidents in the region including two pedestrian who were hit by a Scania bus with Registration T 846 CDU which was on its way to Kigoma from Dar es Salaam. Singida Regional Police Commissioner, Thobias Sedoyeka told the ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Aug

Forestall road accidents

We believe that reckless driving and defective vehicles are major contributors to frequent road accidents, which claim innocent lives, destroy property and often leave survivors in perpetual deformity and dependency.

 

11 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

01 May

Road Accidents Getting Out of Hand

Road Accidents Getting Out of Hand
AllAfrica.com
ONCE again, what appears to be irresponsible, careless and reckless driving has snuffed out the lives of 18 hapless Tanzanians. This happened on Monday night in Udaho Village on the Singida-Dodoma Highway, in what would sound like fiction if published ...
Kikwete consoles families of Singida bus accident victimsDaily News

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11 years ago

TheCitizen

06 Jul

Police say 4 passengers ‘were instantly died’

The men and women whose profession is to inform, educate and entertain by conveying messages via print media often overlook the fact that the written word is permanent once it is published.

 

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