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Traffic police officers will monitor speeds, verify NTSA-issued licenses, and check for overloading of goods and excess passengers.

The National Police Service (NPS) has announced a nationwide crackdown on Public Service Vehicles (PSVs) following the recent rise in road accidents.

In a statement on Sunday, NPS Spokesperson Muchiri Nyaga said that traffic police officers will monitor speeds, verify NTSA-issued licenses, conduct anti-drunk-driving operations, and remove unauthorized lights from vehicles.

The officers will also assess PSV Sacco compliance, remove unroadworthy vehicles, and check for overloading of goods and excess passengers.

“The National Police Service, alongside other stakeholders, continues to step up efforts through multi-pronged strategies, including speed monitoring of PSVs and commercial vehicles, enforcement against overloading of goods and excess passengers, cracking down on PSVs contravening licensed routes, conducting anti-drink-driving operations, removing unlawful lights on motor vehicles, verifying NTSA-issued licences, taking unroadworthy vehicles off the road, and assessing PSV Sacco compliance,” Nyaga stated.

The NPS Spokesperson noted that the majority of road accidents are preventable if road users change their behavior and adhere to traffic rules.

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Collage photo of wrecked vehicles after being involved in an accident in Mai Mahiu. 

“The vast majority of these accidents are preventable if road users change their behavior by avoiding speeding, dangerous overtaking, drink-driving, overloading, driver fatigue, and careless road crossing,” he stated.

Further, Nyaga said NPS, in collaboration with other state agencies, would conduct a thorough and expeditious investigation to determine the cause of the accidents.

This comes after 25 people died when the school bus they were travelling in overturned in Kisumu's Mamboleo area.

The bus rolled after the driver failed to negotiate the vast Coptic roundabout, which is notorious for being a black spot.

Nineteen people died on the spot, while six others succumbed to their injuries while receiving treatment at the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital.

On Saturday, August 9, seven people were killed after a public service vehicle collided with a lorry at Korompoi Global Estate near Kitengela on the Namanga-Isinya Highway.