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World Sight Day: FRSC Vows To Monitor Drivers
The Federal Road
Safety Corp (FRSC), has expressed worry over the high rate of commercial motor drivers plying the roads despite sight challenges.
The Zonal Commanding Officer-In-charge of Zone 6, of the FRSC, Jonah Agu, disclosed this in Port Harcourt, on Friday, on the backdrop of activities marking the World Sight Day.
Agu noted that the FRSC has taken it upon itself to ensure that sights are tested before issuing licenses to drivers.
The FRSC Zonal Officer explained that for people who do office work it could be excused but for drivers the case should not be so.
“You rarely will see a commercial driver with good eyesight, and that is abnormal.
“Some of them have been driving for up to 30 years and above and some even drive with one eye sight and spectacles (medicated) and this is unacceptable”, he said.
The FRSC Zonal Commander also outlined the negative effect of visually impaired commercial drivers on the streets.
The Tide gathered that most avoidable accidents can be attributed to poor sight of drivers.
A source which asked not to be named at the Port Harcourt office of the FRSC and who spoke to The Tide said a good per centage of roads accident in the South-South Zone of Rivers, Bayelsa and Delta States were attributable to drivers with bad sight in the first quarter of 2016.
When The Tide visited some motor parts in parts of Port Harcourt, a handful of drivers who ply interstate routes were seen putting on glasses to enhance their sight.