RTSA SUSPENDS JULDAN MOTORS OPERATOR’S LICENCE

BY SYLVESTER KAUMBA

The Road Transport and Safety Agency has suspended the Road Service Licence for Juldan Motors Bus Services for violating the conditions upon which the operator’s licence was granted.

RTSA Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Zindaba Soko stated that the recent road traffic accidents involving Juldan Motors  Bus Services have been frequent and thereby posing a serious danger to the public.

Mr Soko said this in a statement issued to Komboni Radio News in Lusaka yesterday by RATSA Head of Communications Fredrick Mubanga.

He stated that the Agency has noted with concern that the operator has either failed or neglected to address the problem of excessive speed in its operations and the nation has continued to lose people as a result of the road accidents that could otherwise been preventable.

On 3rd November 2017, a Lusaka bound Juldan Motors bus, Scania Marco polo registration number ALF 6760 was involved in a road accident in Serenje near Kanona area, were one person died and 31 were left injured.

On March 18th 2018, another Juldan Motors bus was involved in a road traffic accident along the Ndola-Kapiri Mposhi road.

On 29th March 2018, another Juldan Motors bus registration number ALR 811 heading to South Africa was involved in an accident in Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe, were one person died and 33 were injured.

And within a space of four days another Juldan Motors bus was involved in a road accident on the 02nd April, 2018 along the Kasama-Luwingu road and four people died and several passengers were left injured.

Mr Soko said Investigations carried out in all these road accidents have established that excessive speed was prominent as the cause of the accidents.

 Komboni/Ends/SK

 

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