Accidents cost US$400m per year

Road traffic accidents are claiming at least five lives a day resulting in an average loss of US$406 million a year, Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Felix Mhona has said.

Addressing the Senate during a question and answer session last week, Mhona revealed that many accidents involve unregistered vehicles or those without valid permits, an issue he is working to address with the police.

“It’s quite disturbing, that a number of accidents that we were witnessing, some were not registered, some did not have valid permits, which is something that we are also working closely with the police so that it will not continue.

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