{"id":47113,"date":"2022-11-29T06:59:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T06:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/police-impounds-199-vehicles-without-mechanical-inspection-certificate\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T07:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T07:04:22","slug":"police-impounds-199-vehicles-without-mechanical-inspection-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/police-impounds-199-vehicles-without-mechanical-inspection-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Police impounds 199 vehicles without mechanical inspection certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some 125 vehicles were impounded in the City of Kigali while other 74 were impounded on various highways across the country.<\/p>\n

All the vehicles were escorted the Automobile Inspection Centres for mechanical inspection, according to Senior Superintendent of Police SSP Iren\u00e9 Irere, the spokesperson for Traffic and Road Safety department.<\/p>\n

He added that these are continuous countrywide operations to impound vehicles without the roadworthy certificate and to penalize owners for their negligence.<\/p>\n

Most drivers of the impounded vehicles, however, blamed their bosses for intentionally refusing to have their cars taken for inspection, when the certificate expires.<\/p>\n

Public transport vehicles and trucks are subjected to mechanical inspection every after six months.<\/p>\n

“The mechanical inspection certificate for the school bus I was driving expired on November 11, and I had informed my employer even before it expired. I was stopped today in the morning while taking children to school,” one of the drivers said.<\/p>\n

He added: “I knew well that driving a vehicle without a roadworthy certificate is a traffic offence but as drivers, we find ourselves on the edge of being fired, if we refuse to drive them, and we have families to cater for.”<\/p>\n

Another driver was quick to say that the transport company he works for cares more about money than road safety.<\/p>\n

“They just tell you; go to work, we will be booking for the inspection,” another driver said.<\/p>\n

The Traffic spokesperson warned owners of vehicles and heads of transport companies for these behaviors of forcing their drivers to drive cars with no or expired mechanical inspection certificate.<\/p>\n

“We noticed that there are many public vehicles and trucks with expired mechanical inspection certificate, which prompted these operations.<\/p>\n

Mechanical inspection is meant to ensure that vehicles are roadworthy and to prevent road carnage caused by mechanical failures,” SSP Irere said.<\/p>\n

“Some of the impounded vehicles had expired certificate while others were operating after failing the first inspection. It is prohibited and a traffic offence to use a vehicle in an operations, if it failed the inspection and given 14 days to fix the identified mechanical faults,” he added.<\/p>\n

The automobile mechanical status is mandated under the Presidential Decree No. 85\/01 of September 2, 2002, which, partly, stipulates that owners of vehicles using public roads without a mechanical inspection certificate will be liable to a fine of Rwf25, 000.<\/p>\n

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