{"id":36353,"date":"2017-11-24T13:15:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/about-1700-motorcycle-accidents-claim-over-130\/"},"modified":"2017-11-24T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T13:14:47","slug":"about-1700-motorcycle-accidents-claim-over-130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/about-1700-motorcycle-accidents-claim-over-130\/","title":{"rendered":"About 1700 motorcycle   accidents claim  over 130 lives in 10 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Launching the ongoing road safety campaign yesterday, Police said that from January this year to October, 1765 motorcycles were involved in road accidents and killed 132 people while 251 sustained injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Under the campaign, Police continue to preach road safety to all road users. Police urged pedestrians, motorcycle riders and car drivers to respect traffic rules and avoid misconduct that could lead to accidents.<br \/>\nUnder the campaign, on Kigali-Rwamagana highway, the Inspector General of Police, Emmanuel K. Gasana urged all road users to respect traffic rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is your responsibility to fight against accidents by avoiding drunk driving  as well as using handsets among others,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media, the police spokesperson, ACP Theos Badege said that police commissioners and senior officers have  participated in the campaign from across the country sensitizing people about road safety.<\/p>\n<p>Badege explained that statistics shows that accidents take lives of at least one person  on a daily basis in the country.<\/p>\n<p>He said it is a matter of concern that should be tackled and reduce numbers through putting in place different measures that will involve administering harsher sanctions.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe are going to revise the laws, introduce tough penalties and persistent poor drivers and riders risk having their permits revoked and serving longer jail terms. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22854 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/accidents2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22853 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/accidents1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22852 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/accidents.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22851 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/accidents3.jpg\" alt=\"IGP Emmanuel Gasana speaks to road users \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have said  reckless motorcycle riding  continues to be among main causes of  road accidents,  claiming many lives with 132 people killed and 251 injured in the last 10 months  across the country.<\/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-36353","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\/36353","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=36353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36353"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36353"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}