How will you feel if you suddenly discover that the driver of
the bus you have boarded is blind? In Lagos, it has been
discovered that a large percentage of drivers, both private
and public are suffering from different degrees of eye
defects that have made them to be partially blind.
By Olasunknami Akoni
According to the Lagos State Drivers' Institute LASDRI, which has
trained about 65,000 drivers since August 2009, about 22 per cent
of the trained drivers or 14,300 were discovered to be partially
blind.
The law establishing the institute came into being in 2007 but
LASDRI commenced operation on August 25h, 2009, with the sole
aim of ensuring improved road safety culture on the roads.
Mr. Ayodeji Oyedokun, is the Chief Executive Officer CEO, LASDRI,
while speaking with Vanguard on the activities of the institution
for over four years, stated: "We are all aware of the fact that
there are so many drivers with drivers' license who never had any
formal training in driving technology. We are aware of the fact
that makes people to rush for driver's license, which is mainly for
an identification document.
"What we are saying in essence, is that there are so many people
driving out there that are not supposed to owe drivers license
because they did not pass through any formal training. This had
led to a lot of carnages on the highway, traffic snarl and jam, with
resultant effect of gaseous emission into the atmosphere, which
ultimately leads to health hazards, and loss of man hours,
because they do not know the rules guiding the use of highway.
"In the highway transportation system, there are three main
factors that interplay; the human being which is the driver, the
environment-road and the vehicle, it is the human factor that is
key to the severity or fatality of road crashes. Therefore, it is the
human being that needs to be worked on in terms of
competence, fitness, mental alertness, level of eye sight, because
driving is about seeing and being seen, hence, the government
decided to set up LASDRI."
According to LASDRI boss, before the commencement of
operation, various researches were carried out where it showed
that 75 percent of auto crashes were due to human errors.


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