Just Mary

  A lot of   us have been affected by road accidents which have claimed the   lives   of our relatives, close friends, friends of our friends and other people     we have never heard of ,sadly ,the number increases by the day. I was very shocked when I read a report commissioned by the Malawi’s National Road Safety Council which says out of 18000 registered vehicles in Malawi at least 1200 of them get involved in road accidents which are mainly caused by over speeding, overloading and drunken or unlicensed drivers, of course the number may seem less but come to think of those who have lost their lives or get physically hurt. There are a lot of roadblocks along a lot of roads here in Malawi to help control traffic but, each time I went through roadblock I always got disappointed at how different cases were being handled.   My thoughts reel back to one of the days I was traveling from town to school, I don’t like traveling but how can it be avoided? As usual I boarded a minibus