As Road Safety Week gets into gear, police conducted speed and seat belt inspections on the Cable Beach Strip Wednesday morning, resulting in several persons receiving speeding tickets.
With more than 30 road fatalities recorded so far for the year, Assistant Superintendent Willard Cunningham, has vowed to crack down on every road traffic violation.
“One life lost, as I have said on many occasions, is too many, so we in the traffic division and other uniformed branches, we will be very visible on the streets, not only for this week, but throughout this year and the years ahead,” he said.
Promising a zero-tolerance approach to road safety violations, ASP Cunningham said, “During this month we are going to be very proactive; as a matter of fact the police officers are going to be very visible, not only this month but for the next three months and in the year 2003.”
He said he believes this visibility will “calm drivers down.”
So far for the year there have been 34 traffic fatalities, twenty-three in New Providence, six in Grand Bahama, two in Eleuthera, two in Abaco and one in Bimini.
Last year there were 66 traffic fatalities.
“So we are trying our best to keep this year’s count under that number,” he said.
He said as traffic police will check for speeding drivers, bald tires, invalid inspection stickers and shattered windshields, drivers will realise the need for driving safety and obeying the law.
ASP Cunningham hopes that by enforcing all road rules, drivers will stay alive.
The Royal Bahamas Police Force’s Traffic Division will be joined by The Road Traffic Department, The Ministry of Transport and The Ministry of Public Health.
