Speeding, booze blamed for many road accidents

As the country mourns over 40 deaths in just two major road accidents that occurred this month, many more lives are likely to be lost in road carnages if the current safety situation is not reversed.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Oct

Building accidents blamed on blocks

Mushrooming of sub-standard cement blocks have been fueling construction accidents in the city, especially several incidents of falling towers.

 

9 years ago

Daily News

21 Aug

Eight killed, six injured as speeding car skids off road in Mwanza

Eight killed, six injured as speeding car skids off road in Mwanza
Daily News
EIGHT people died while six others were injured after a vehicle they were travelling in overturned at Itega village in Mwanza Region on Tuesday evening. Acting Mwanza Regional Police Commander (RPC) Japhet Lufingu told the 'Daily News' over the phone ...

 

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

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

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

Daily News

10 Mar

Five killed in city road accidents

Five killed in city road accidents
Daily News
FIVE people, including a one-year-old boy, died while fifteen others sustain injures in separate road accidents in Dar es Salaam over the weekend. In one of the accidents, a man identified as Amini Mwarami (40), of Yombo died on Saturday morning along the ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Apr

Road accidents kill over 900

>At least 970 people died and over 2,470 others injured in road accidents in the past four months, police said.

 

10 years ago

Daily News

25 Nov

Road accidents drop in Geita

Daily News
Road accidents drop in Geita
Daily News
TANZANIA Chief Traffic Police Commander Mohamed Mpinga has praed the Road Safety Committee in Geita Region and other stakeholders for their effort in lowering road accidents. Giving h views on Regional Road Safety Day held at Kalangalala last ...

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

20 Aug

'Number of road accidents drops'

IPPmedia
'Number of road accidents drops'
IPPmedia
Efforts to reduce the wave of road accidents have started to pay off as the number has dropped to 8,405 from 11, 311 accidents recorded last year, while that of causalities went down by 0.2 percent. Speaking to The Guardian recently, Chief Traffic Police ...

 

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