According to the Lagos State Drivers’ Institute LASDRI, which has
trained about 65,000 drivers since August 2009, about 22 per cent of the
trained drivers or 14,300 were discovered to be partially blind.
The law establishing the institute came into being in 2007 but LASDRI
commenced operation on August 25h, 2009, with the sole aim of ensuring
improved road safety culture on the roads.
Mr. Ayodeji Oyedokun, is the Chief Executive Officer CEO, LASDRI,
while speaking with Vanguard on the activities of the institution for
over four years, stated: “We are all aware of the fact that there are so
many drivers with drivers’ license who never had any formal training in
driving technology. We are aware of the fact that makes people to rush
for driver’s license, which is mainly for an identification document.
“What we are saying in essence, is that there are so many people
driving out there that are not supposed to owe drivers license because
they did not pass through any formal training. This had led to a lot of
carnages on the highway, traffic snarl and jam, with resultant effect of
gaseous emission into the atmosphere, which ultimately leads to health
hazards, and loss of man hours, because they do not know the rules
guiding the use of highway.
“In the highway transportation system, there are three main factors
that interplay; the human being which is the driver, the
environment-road and the vehicle, it is the human factor that is key to
the severity or fatality of road crashes. Therefore, it is the human
being that needs to be worked on in terms of competence, fitness, mental
alertness, level of eye sight, because driving is about seeing and
being seen, hence, the government decided to set up LASDRI.”
According to LASDRI boss, before the commencement of operation,
various researches were carried out where it showed that 75 percent of
auto crashes were due to human errors.
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