Sanitising society through traffic laws

and made to face the consequences that they claim ignorance of the existing laws. And when caught on the wrong side of the law, ignorance is no excuse.

Commercial bus drivers are generally guilty of lack of orderliness. In an attempt to arrive their destination hurriedly to pick more passengers and make more money, they drive recklessly and impatiently thereby disobeying traffic laws which may lead to avoidable road crashes.The severity of punishment or penalty for various traffic offences ranges from N20,000 to seizure/confiscation of vehicle or imprisonment and compulsory training at the Lagos State Driving Institute as the case may be.

According to the Lagos State Traffic Laws 2018 as amended, some of the traffic offences and penalties among others are: Driving vehicles with doors left open carries N20,000 and N30,000 respectively for committing offence at first and subsequently plus one month community service; illegal U-turn comes with N20,000 fine for first offender and N30,000 subsequently; wrongful overtaking of other vehicles on the road is accompanied by a fine of N50,000 and N100,000 for same offence subsequently;...

The other day, on a live Radio programme, a caller phoned in to ask how the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority personnel could tell if a vehicle owner uses it for commercial purpose or not. The General Manager of LASTMA, Jide Oduyoye, an engineer, said one can easily identify a private car owner who uses it for public purpose by simply asking for the name of the driver from any passenger in the bus. If they can’t tell, then it means they do not know themselves anywhere.LASTMA G.M.

Every motorist is duty-bound to get familiar with the Lagos State traffic laws because ignorance would not be entertained as an excuse.

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