FRSC - FRSC Introduces E-ticketing For Traffic Offences

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As part of strategies to enhance its capacity on enforcement of traffic rules, The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in partnership with the United Bank for Africa (UBA), on Tuesday, formally unveiled an e-ticketing platform to facilitate easy booking of motorists for road traffic offences.

Speaking at the occasion, the Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of the FRSC Osita Chidoka, said "the E-ticketing is a sign post of our continued commitment to address the spate of road crashes in the country and total compliance with the mandate of the United nations decade of action for road safety which seeks 50% reduction in road crashes by 2020".

He added that the Corps has adopted the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, Lagos and Rivers States as pilot scheme for the initiative which sets out to check the abnormal traffic habits of texting while driving among motorists. The Corps Marshal also said under the new arrangement, hand-held devices will be utilized by patrol operatives of the FRSC for real time booking of traffic offenders and seamless improvement of a reliable database on traffic offenders.

According to Chidoka, with the introduction of the system, the FRSC would gradually move away from the conventional method of booking traffic offenders, which he described as obsolete and time-consuming. The Corps Marshal also said the new system would enable the FRSC to track habitual offenders, reduce time spent in booking offenders and also benefit the insurance industry as data generated by the Corps on traffic offenders will enhance risk pricing by Insurance firms for their customers (vehicle owners).

He said the Corps was in partnership with UBA in sensitising motorists to the dangers of receiving or making phone calls and sending messages while driving.

Mr Kennedy Uzoka, the Deputy Managing Director of UBA, said that having identified the lead agency role of the FRSC, the bank initiated the partnership especially in its drive to save lives on the nation's highways."We have been looking for partners to save lives and we found the FRSC; we chose the FRSC because of its impact at the national level. "We can use technology to change the way people behave but texting while driving is very dangerous," he said.

In an interview with newsmen, Prof. Robert Boroffice, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Science and Technology, urged motorists to desist from using the phone while driving as the habit was a major cause of road accidents. "If you take the statistics of lives and property lost on the road you will find out that the number is even more than the number of lives lost through AIDs and other pandemic diseases,'' he said.

Boroffice commended the FRSC for introducing the e-ticketing, saying it is in line with the cashless policy of the present administration.

Via: Federal Road Safety Commission [FRSC] - Official Press Release