Bisi Kazeem (Head, Media Relations and Strategy, Federal Road Safety Commission) Speed limiters would curb accidents on Nigeria roads. We started this campaign on speed limiters with advisory enforcement. In the Federal Road Safety Commission, we use a four-prong approach system to achieve our goals. This includes education, subtle force, persuasion and enforcement/prosecution. Advisory enforcement is when we stop commercial […]
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The Federal Road Safety Corps has issued traffic citations to 2,800 commercial motorists for their failure to instal the speed limiting device on their vehicles. The corps described the citations as an advisory enforcement, which did not attract penalties or fines, a statement on Sunday in Abuja, by Bisi Kazeem, the Head, Media Relations and Strategy, FRSC, said. The statement […]
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The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Commission, Mr. Boboye Oyeyemi, has said the speed limit device introduced by the FRSC will reduce road accidents by 6o per cent. Oyeyemi, who was represented by a top official of the FRSC, Mr. Victor Nwokolo, said this in Umuahia, the Abia State capital on Monday during the commencement of the 2016 ‘ember months […]
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The National President of Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN), Chief Musa Isiwele, has urged the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) not to be selective in the planned issuance of speed-limiters to vehicles. Isiwele, who gave the advice in Abuja while speaking with journalists on certain government policies in the transport sector, said all categories of vehicles must be […]
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Leveraction [August 26, 2016 @ 08:40AM] This is a very ignorant plan/idea. It is obvious the DOT does not run the roads of America daily. We already have most corporate owned trucks only running between 60 and 68 mph max. Get on any Interstate and they back up 7 – 10 deep side by side and cause huge back-ups. I […]
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Federal safety regulators are proposing that heavy-duty vehicles be equipped with speed-limiting devices set to a specific maximum speed. A notice of proposed rulemaking was issued jointly on Aug. 26 by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). The NPRM comes after a decade-long push by trucking and safety advocates to put […]
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The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Oyeyemi, has announced that enforcement of the speed limiters on commercial vehicles will commence nationwide on October 1, 2016. Oyeyemi said this on Wednesday in Abuja during a stakeholders’ meeting with relevant government agencies and transport unions.
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The Federal Road Safety Corps has said the cost of driving licence remains N6,350.00 and does not expect any driver to pay more than the amount to obtain any licence whose expiry period is three years. It said no price increase had been announced, adding that a five-year duration was only added to the three-year driving licence with a cost […]
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As part of efforts to reduce the rate of speed-related accidents in Nigeria, the National Automotive Development and Design Council has directed all vehicle manufacturing plants in the country to install the speed-limiting device in their vehicles. A deadline for compliance on the installation of the device in all vehicles being imported into the country has also been given.
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The House of Representatives Committee on Federal Road Safety Commission has endorsed the move by the Federal Road Safety Corps to introduce speed limiting devices on vehicles in the country as part of measures to curb road crashes. In a report of the committee made available in Abuja on Monday, it stated that the FRSC acted within the powers conferred […]
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The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) campaign for the use of speed limiting device in vehicles operating in the country got a hike as the Corps Marshal of the FRSC, Boboye Oyeyemi commissioned 300 factory fitted Hummer Buses with the devices into the fleet of the Peace Mass Transport (PMT) Limited. Oyeyemi reaffirmed the commitment of the FRSC to pursuit […]
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Federal Road Safety Corps has announced that it was not going back on its plan to commence the enforcement of the installation of speed limiting device by commercial and haulage vehicles operators in Nigeria from April 1. Sector Commander of the FRSC, Federal Capital Territory, Mr. Sunday Oghenekaro, who made this known while speaking to newsmen in Abuja, urged commercial […]
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