Top 14 Road Safety Tips
1. Safety is not in your hands, pray to God, to protect, guide and bless your journey. Because the journey you want to embark on is not by your power

2. Festival journey is not like your other usual journey you embark in an ordinary month so you need to prepare two hour before your usual time because of traffic and many people are in the same journey with you
3. Make sure that, the car you want to apply on the road is good enough to cover the distance you want it to cover

4. Check the water level in your radiator together with the oil level and never forget to likewise check the air level in your tyre .

5. Avoid to eat things that will upset your stomach to avoid driver pls stop driver pls stop ...... Let me visit my ancestors in the bush.

6. Good things have it own demerits and might kill if misused, phone is good but Don't use your mobile phone while driving. Making ,receiving a call ,nairalanding , pinging or whatsapping even using a 'hands free' phone, can distract your attention from driving and could lead to an accident. And if u will answer the call pls stop and pack very well .
7. Belt up in the back In a collision, an unbelted rear passenger can kill or seriously injure the driver or a front seat passenger.

8. Your habit might indanger your life and others, if you are such a type who can't do with out alcohol a.k.a ogogoro kindly ask your friend who don't drink to help you. Don't drink and drive. Any alcohol, even a small amount , can impair your driving so be a safe driver don't drink and drive.

9. Slow down At 35mph you are twice as likely to kill a pedestrian than at 30mph. Especially here that people rare cattuals in our roads rather than fortress.

10. Take a break Tiredness is thought to be a major factor in more than 10% of road accidents. Plan to stop for at least a 15 minute break every 2 hours on a long journey.

11. Make use of road signs and symbols eg. Speed limits, zebra crossing etc . Pls all these symbols are not for fancy. Adhere to it

12. Anticipate Observe and anticipate other road users and use your mirrors regularly. Note side and center mirrors are not for making up .

13. Use car seats, Child and baby seats should be fitted properly and checked every trip.

14. Keep your distance Always, keep a two second gap between you and the car in front.

pls feel free to add more tips and be your brothers keeper so that we can make this festival period a blissful one.

lovelymind:
11. Make use of road sings and symbols eg. Speed limits, zebra crossing etc . Pls all these symbols are not for fancy. Adhere to it

Please, where can one find the signals?

lovelymind: 7. Belt up in the back In a collision, an unbelted rear passenger can kill or seriously injure the driver or a front seat passenger.

How about front passengers/driver's belt?

Vicjustice: Please, where can one find the signals?

Pls don't let ppl know dat we don't have road symbols in our truck A roads but we can make use of this one

lovelymind: Top 14 Road Safety Tips

11. Make use of road sings and symbols eg. Speed limits, zebra crossing etc . Pls all these symbols are not for fancy. Adhere to it

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Road sings and symbols? You mean road signs and signals? The best road safety tip for the holiday is for

everybody to keep their azz in their house.

it is well

We know the wahala http://transparentnigeria.com/news_entries/91/How-Was-Your-Holiday-Travel

transparent_nga: We know the wahala http://transparentnigeria.com/news_entries/91/How-Was-Your-Holiday-Travel

How Was Your Holiday Travel?

Anyone who traveled home for the holiday by road should really thank Father Christmas because driving in Nigeria is quite an experience. Any foreigner who tours around Nigeria by road would probably resolve to write their biography as soon as they return home having survived a near death experience!

The most astonishing thing about Nigeria’s roads is not their dilapidated state, but how accustomed to potholed roads we Nigerians have become. Honestly, it’s sometime fun to go bouncing and galloping along roads that really could be death traps. It’s one way to feel alive.

But in all seriousness, for those of us who cannot afford to fly, which has it’s own wahala, the state of our roads is truly worrisome. In fact, in the eastern part of Nigeria,, some states are in the verge of losing their connections with other states due to how bad the roads are.

Driving form Enugu to Port-Harcout along the dual carriage-way lane seems like an endless journey filled with horrible scenes of freshly happened accidents that have claimed so many lives. Just check the pictures in the slider for proof. For other federal roads it is the same story. See the Lagos-Ibadan express road, Lagos-Onitsha express road, and so many others.

Since the Enugu-Port Harcourt express road wad built in the 80s, there has never been any major rehabilitation. This has raised a lot of questions among Nigerians on why the road has just been left as is. The ironic thing is that this road is awarded a contract for rehabilitation each year. In 2013 alone, the road has been awarded more than two times to different construction companies, including Julius Berger who won the contract in August. However, there is still no sign of true maintenance. All one can see are graders and bulldozers pretending to be employed on a massive rehabilitation project. I don’t even see workers! Before we get to the middle of 2014, I am sure that the work will be abandoned for one excuse or the other. I hazard a guess that it’ll be the need for more money.

But the real question now is who do we as suffering citizens question?The federal government (re: Federal Road Maintenance Agency) or the contractors? What could be the reason why no one bothers to fix our roads?Is it that they don’t have enough men to survey the 1000+ potholes we swerve to avoid or is it that the federal government doesn't release adequate funds for maintenance?

Or, God forbid, is it that the money allocated for these road projects has been diverted into personal accounts? Is it a deliberate act to further subjugate the poor masses?

One thing is for sure, you cannot blame Nigerians for being cynical.
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