{"id":36050,"date":"2017-10-12T17:16:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T17:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/use-of-speed-governors-reduced-accidents-by-65\/"},"modified":"2017-10-12T17:16:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T17:16:19","slug":"use-of-speed-governors-reduced-accidents-by-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/use-of-speed-governors-reduced-accidents-by-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of Speed Governors reduced accidents by 65%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumanzi who was speaking Thursday in a consultative meeting on \u2018Road and Traffic Accident Prevention\u2019 which brought together officers from RNP and staff from  Ministry of Infrastructure and other related institutions  said that many people are likely to lose their lives when one public bus involved in an accident.<\/p>\n<p>He said that in fatal accidents that occurred during this year, 18 people lost their lives while 62 were injured.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn cars installed with speed governors, accidents reduced by 65%. This indicates that nowadays\u2019 accidents are not caused by overspeeding. The problem is among drivers, that is where we should focus.\u201d he said<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22113 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/speed_governors.jpg\" alt=\"A public transport bus that involved in road accident at Shyorongi, Rulindo District\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of Speed Governors by public service vehicles helped to reduce accidents in public transport by 65% in the past nine months,  the Commissioner for Traffic and Road Safety Department at Rwanda National Police (RNP), CP George Rumanzi has said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36050"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36050"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}