20th November 2011:World Remembrance Day of Road Crash Victims!

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The World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims was started by RoadPeace in 1993. Since then it has been observed and promoted worldwide by several NGOs, including the European Federation of Road Traffic Victims (FEVR) and its associated organizations.

On 26th October 2005, the United Nations endorsed it as a global day to be observed every third Sunday in November each year, making it a major advocacy day for road traffic injury prevention. WHO and the United Nations Road Safety Collaboration encourage governments and NGOs around the world to commemorate this day.

MY TAKE:"This is appropriate day of acknowledgement for victims of road traffic crashes and their families, I hope, the day will be commemorated by giving support to the victims with post-trauma disabilities and their lives are in total mess. Demonstrations, speeches and songs won't help these people.

Likewise, I would be more than happy if the Police force will come up with strategies to curb escalating accident statistics in the country".

Road Humps: Are There Any Standards?

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In the photo you can see a speed hump or commonly known as ''speed bumps''. It has been a common practice for road contractors to fix the bumps as a way of controlling over speeding. But I have been asking myself,'Are these humps erected according to a certain standard?'' I am asking this due to the fact that some of them are so big to make a small car go side ways to avoid damaging some parts under the car.In the picture are small humps but fixed few feet apart,others are just one but so huge. Can anyone help on this please?

Breaking News: More 300 Feared Dead,A Ship Capsises in Zanzibar

More than 300 people are feared dead following a capsized ship in between Zanzibar and Pemba islands. To this hour, a source in Zanzibar said that about 270 passengers have been saved while about 50 dead bodies have been recovered. The source added that, most of those saved are children including a 7 months old baby.

The accident occurred last night.

TukTuk (Motorcycle) Injury-7

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This is a motorcycle driver who got injured on the leg

Driving Upcountry9!

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It wasnt easy for me to believe what i saw, the photo shows a boat full of passangers! my investigation revealed that, no one determines if the boat is full, no life jackets and any other stuff for protection if anything happens along the journey. This is lake Tanganyika, known to have deep waters. I dont know what SUMATRA could tell us about this.

Jamani, nimekuwa na maswali mengi kuhusu hili,tunasubiri ajali itokee ndio wahusika waamke? SUMATRA wako wapi?

Dar Roads!Accidents everywhere!

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In the photo, this commuter bus rammed into this saloon car with regestration No. T254 BAG, this was caused by reckless driving.

Driving Upcountry8-Kurya Ngoma.

As I was driving along in one of the villages in Mara region I met a group of wananchi doing the Kurya dance, it was something me and my colleague enjoyed very much after a long drive fatigue. It refreshed our minds and hence we had a safe drive.

Sorry, whoever did the recording was not a professional, so the camera twisted here and there,yet u can get the sweet taste of the 'ngoma'.