Speed limiter remains the only solution to road carnage arising from excessive speeding, Federal Road Safety Corps Marshal Boboye Oyeyemi has said.
Speaking at a sensitisation exercise for stakeholders on the benefits of the device in Lagos yesterday, Oyeyemi said over-speeding was becoming a major factor for road fatalities, following improvement of the nation’s road network.
He said the agency, through the United Nations (UN), has acquired a number of speed gun and these would be deployed by its men to test vehicles for compliance.
He, however, ruled out any punitive measure at the initial stage against any defaulter, adding that the objective of the agency was to save lives and not to punish defaulters.
The FRSC Chief Executive Officer (CEO), who lauded the stakeholders, particularly members of the union of transport employees and owners, said the enforcement would begin on June 1, with commercial vehicles.
Oyeyemi said the speed governor remains the only initiative to help the nation in its quest to implement the various instruments such as the African Declaration, held at Accra, Ghanaian capital, as well as the United Nations Decade on Road Safety and the Vision 20:2020 – all of which, he said, were committed to reducing crashes and fatalities on the roads.
He noted that though the statistics for crashes and fatalities for the first quarter of 2015, is lower than the corresponding period for last year and 2013, the speed limiter initiative would further help drive a reduction.
He listed the benefit of the limiter to including safety of lives, cleaner environment with a cut down on carbon emission, longevity of vehicle’s lifespan and more efficient use of the roads.
Odumodu, who was represented by Mr. Richard Adewunmi, said in approving the device, SON looked at the product’s compliance with a number of factors, among which were: the nation’s salinity level, very high temperature, dust and other contaminant’s level and its capacity to function within the vehicle’s electromagnetic field.
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