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Recklessness, altered speed limiters main cause of road accidents: NTSA

NTSA Road Safety and Strategies Manager, Samuel Musumba. [Screengrab]

The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has identified tampering with speed limiters and reckless driving as primary contributors to fatal road accidents.

Appearing on Spice FM on Friday, April 12, Samuel Musumba, NTSA Road Safety and Strategies Manager, claimed that some operators collude with speed governor vendors to manipulate their devices to only transmit minimum speeds, leading to a fleet of vehicles transmitting identical speeds, such as seventy kilometers per hour, on the same stretch of road.

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