As part of efforts to curb the menace of road insecurity, the Senegalese government has announced a ban on night bus trips and the import of second-hand tires, after an accident that killed 39 people recently.
According to the announcement by Prime Minister Amadou Bâ, public passenger transport vehicles will be banned from “travelling on interurban roads between 23:00 and 05:00”.
It is imperative to note that buses called “schedules”, carrying passengers and goods, many of which travel at night from region to region, are one of the main means of transport in Senegal and cause many accidents.
The announcement include measures prohibiting the importation of second-hand tires and making “mandatory the sealing of speedometers of vehicles transporting people and goods at 90 km/h”.
Amadou Bâ said they “must not be postponed or compromised. We will be uncompromising with those who violate the rules enacted to ensure the physical integrity of our citizens”.
According to records, road accidents officially kill 700 people every year in Senegal, a West African country of more than 17 million inhabitants.
The new measures are announced after the collision between two buses that killed 39 people and injured 101 in the village of Sikilo, in the Kaffrine region (center), some 250 km from Dakar.
President Macky Sall, who visited the scene of the accident the same day, declared three days of national mourning.
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