The Rwanda National Police (RNP) department of Traffic and Road Safety has asked owners of travel agencies, teachers and parents to work together to ensure the safety of the children to and from school.
The call comes after it emerged that some school vans do not have all the requirements including insurance, vehicle mechanical inspection certificates while drivers violate road safety standards and transport more than the standard number of insured people.
Chief Inspector of Police (CIP) Emmanuel Kabanda, the traffic police and road safety spokesperson said that parents should be at the forefront by checking if their children are being transported in the most appropriate way possible.
“We stopped a school bus along Vunga-Musanze road, recently, carrying almost double the required number, an act that all parties should work together to prevent to ensure safe movement of the students either in the van. Vehicles are ensured depending on the number they carry, which should be strictly observed,” CIP Kabanda said.
He also noted that some parents send their younger children unaccompanied on the road to wait for the vehicle that take them to school, which also puts them at risk of being knocked by either car, motorcycles or even bicycles.
“It is equally the right of parents and guardians to know the driver taking their children, the status of vehicle and even the state and character of the driver.”
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