TIMA-RIV Records 2,759 Traffic Offences

The Rivers State Road Traffic Management Authority (TIMA-RIV) says it has recorded a total of 2,759 traffic offences between December 2010 and February 2011.

The Organisation’s Head of Research and Planning, Somina Membre, dropped the  hint in Port Harcourt during the formal presentation of the authority’s quarterly statistical survey report last Thursday.

According to him, the statistical survey indicates that 30 percent of all traffic offences in the last three months were committed by commercial vehicle drivers parking at undesignated bus stops as 16 per cent of the offences are related to reckless and inconsiderate driving.

The further explained that parking on the highway which is prohibited accounts for 12 per cent of the traffic offences noting that majority of this would be commercial vehicles drivers.

Causing obstruction on the highway accounts for eight per cent of the offences, he said, stressing that driving against traffic which is one of the offences for which the Authority recommends a psychiatric evaluation to can firm the offenders mental status constitutes over five per cent of the offences.

Overall, membre noted that the various offences listed above constitute over 70 per cent of all the offences on Port Harcourt roads, saying that if  TIMA-RIV, with the support and co-operation of the by general public, can reduce significantly the occurrences of the offences,” we would have gone a long way to solving our traffic challenges.”