Four people died last night on the eve of Christmas succumbing to road accidents, The police spokesman supt. Theos Badege has said.
Among the four death tolls countrywide, included two who died in a motorcycle accident on the road from town to Nyarutarama via Utexrwa textile company near Redcross.
Badege added that also six people were arrested country wide due to reckless driving while drunkard.
While 15 others were also arrested at Muhima police station for over drinking and distabilising their neigbours though they were not driving.
However, Badege says generally the country was safe and at peace through the eve of Christmas.
“I think Rwandan have started knowing and understanding to have discipline in their lives and they really took police warnings seriously,” Badedge said by cell phone.
“This not alarming though, if you compare last weekend’s accidents they are equal to what was recorded last night, so we can’t actually associate it with celebrations,” Badege added.
Police had begun an earlier warning through different media to drivers and the public to have safe celebrations.
Particularly the police warned against sound pollution, over speeding and the like the only issue was the extended traffic jam ciculation.
Though it extended compared to daily hours traffic policemen had been deployed in different joints to assist in the increased traffic that could have been caused by different people going to and coming from shopping for Christmas.
But also partly due to weddings since it was a Saturday that always sees weddings takeoff, traffic jam at Remera, Gipoloso for example almost stretched upto 11:00pm .
According to Badege, all those collective celebrations like concerts took place in the given time, and wedding or home parties made sure that they do it calmly not to interfere in their neighbor’s freedom.
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