{"id":49932,"date":"2024-02-07T06:42:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T06:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/thousands-of-road-users-tipped-on-gerayo-amahoro\/"},"modified":"2024-02-07T06:45:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T06:45:07","slug":"thousands-of-road-users-tipped-on-gerayo-amahoro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/thousands-of-road-users-tipped-on-gerayo-amahoro\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of road users tipped on Gerayo Amahoro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers engaged primary and secondary students, teachers, pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and drivers on road safety practices.<\/p>\n<p>The outreach was conducted across different roads in Kigali and highways in the districts of Musanze, Rulindo, Nyamasheke, Ngororero, Nyagatare, Gatsibo, Ngoma, Kirehe, Bugesera, Kayonza, Muhanga and Nyanza.<\/p>\n<p>It focused on educating students house to cross the road both at Zebra Crossing and where they don&#8217;t exist; dangers of using a phone while crossing the road and refraining from reckless practices of playing in the middle of the road, which in some cases has resulted into fatal accidents.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers and taxi-moto operators were equally reminded of their duty to make road safe for all by respecting traffic rules and regulations.<\/p>\n<p>They were particularly urged to do away with practices such as speeding, using a phone when driving or riding, bad maneuvers, wrong overtaking, drunk-driving, and driving or riding under stress which are some of major causes of accidents.<\/p>\n<p>Pedestrians were also reminded to refrain from holding onto moving vehicles, reckless maneuvers, transporting big luggage and not to operate beyond 6p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Gerayo Amahoro road safety awareness campaign started in 2019 to sensitize road users with the ultimate objective of changing behaviors to make road safety a choice and culture.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-63385\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/donabis_.jpg\" alt=\"The ongoing Gerayo Amahoro road safety campaign conducted over the past one week, benefited more than 17,400 road users across the country.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The ongoing Gerayo Amahoro road safety campaign conducted over the past one week, benefited more than 17,400 road users across the country.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000063384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-49932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000063384,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-02-02_at_18.56_03_e49a218f.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-02-02_at_18.56_03_e49a218f.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-02-02_at_18.56_03_e49a218f.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-02-02_at_18.56_03_e49a218f.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-02-02_at_18.56_03_e49a218f.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2024-02-02_at_18.56_03_e49a218f.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49932","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000063384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49932"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=49932"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=49932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}