THE Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) and religious leaders have joined forces in road safety campaigns aimed at raising awareness on road traffic accidents, which are claiming several lives almost on a daily basis.
BY VANESSA GONYE
Speaking at a religious leaders workshop on road traffic awareness in Harare on Wednesday, TSCZ managing director Obio Chinyere said clerics have a role to play in the reduction of road traffic accidents which are mainly a result of human error.
“It has been our mandate to mobilise every stakeholder who has the capacity to advocate for road safety and no one can surpass the role of religious leaders in promoting noble causes like the reduction of accidents and their effects,” he said.
“Accidents have become the greatest killer, surpassing HIV and Aids, which has seen a decline in deaths, while accidents face an increase of such fatalities on a daily basis.”
Chinyere apologised for not consulting religious leaders before the launch of the new Highway Code and the council’s other campaigns.
Religious leaders present said most of them lacked knowledge on road safety.
“We feel highly honoured to be invited to such a meaningful and progressive cause. However, we encourage more action as well as engagement of mother bodies of these congregations to take the awareness campaigns to a higher level,” Rev Lindsay Nyajeka from ZAOGA said.
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TSCZ has engaged various stakeholders including the media, transport operators as well as the general public and pedestrians in a bid to raise awareness on road safety in the face of an increase in road carnage.
An average of five people die in road accidents daily and human error has often been identified as the major cause.
