COMMENT: Road users should exercise caution this Easter holiday

With the nation bracing for the Easter holidays beginning this coming Friday on April 15, the nation should always be reminded of the responsibilities that await every responsible citizen of Zimbabwe.
People would travel to different destinations for various reasons among them visiting places of worship and in some cases for holidays and during the journeys, a lot of things occur on the roads.
Road carnage which has become a common feature on national roads during public holidays need to be put under check so as to avoid unnecessary loss of human lives.
What that entails is responsibility from every responsible citizen be it drivers, passengers as well as law enforcement agents to fight the scourge. Gone should be the days in which accidents during public holidays can be normalised and nothing is done to address that. There is need for various stakeholders to join forces and fight the mishaps and with each stakeholder playing their roles, sanity will prevail on the roads.
Motorists should ensure that they adhere to the set rules and regulations when travelling and thus no to over speeding and or overloading of vehicles as the two are detrimental to safety of both passengers and motorists themselves. The travelling parties should also ensure that they play their role towards ensuring own safety and that is exercising caution by avoid travelling in overloaded vehicles. Also liaising with the drivers so that they travel at stipulated speed limits would be another way to go towards safety. Beside the above, the choice of transport they would use also determines their safety especially from criminals who have found safe haven on the roads as they pounce on unsuspecting passengers. The public thus should use public transport instead of these private vehicles that have seen the criminal elements of this society capitalizing on the desperation for transport to reach their destinations.
Law enforcement agents also should play their part when it comes enforcing the law on the roads as a way of deterring motorists from flouting the rules as required at law. Police thus should diligently execute their duties without fear or favour so that lives can be saved on the roads.
As a result collective action of all concerned stakeholders would go a long way in ensuring safety of people travelling during holidays and thus each individual should play a role towards that.