The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has accused commercial motorists of tampering with speed limiting devices after installation.
This is just as the organisation noted that it had arrested 129,060 offenders for not installing the Speed Limiting Devices (SLDs), as well as for speed limit violations.
FRSC began implementation of the speed limiter policy in February 2017.
In an interview with NAN in Abuja, Bisi Kazeem, spokesman of the FRSC, said the arrests dated back to 2016.
He commended the feedback on compliance, noting that commercial drivers were also keying into the policy.
He, however, complained of the attitude of the commercial motorists, stating that: “Data has shown that commercial vehicles are more prone to crashes as a result of speed violation.
“Due to poor supervision and central control system by the management of fleet operators, most of the drivers tamper with…
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