Speed limiter: FRSC arrests over 129,000 offenders

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC said   it had  arrested 129, 060 offenders for failure to install the Speed Limiting Device (SLD) on their vehicles and for speed limit violation in the country.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the FRSC began implementation of the speed limiter policy on Feb. 1, 2017 to address the issue of speeding blamed for 50 per cent of road accidents in the country.

The Corps believes that controlling vehicle speed would cut road accidents by 50 per cent, in addition to reducing the impact of crashes when they occur.

Mr Bisi Kazeem, the spokesman of the FRSC, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja, said that the arrests for the various offences were made from 2016 till date.

“The figure for the combined offence of failure to install Speed Limit Device and speed limit violation as submitted above from 2016 till date is 13,305 in Abuja, and 129,060 in Nigeria,” he said.
Kazeem noted that the enforcement of the Speed Limiting Device began on Oct. 1, 2016 in Abuja and all other field Commands.

He explained, however, that it began with a subtle enforcement before a full-fledged enforcement commenced nationwide, adding that the enforcement in Abuja covered all routes plied by commercial vehicles.

The spokesman said the purchase of the device by vehicles owners was encouraging, adding, however, that there were still few complaints about the price.