The proper maintenance of vehicles to ensure their roadworthiness is extremely important when it comes to road safety in towns and cities in the country.
The increased number of unsilenced and faulty vehicles in Port Moresby city alone has increased the probability of more accidents from a logical perspective.
It is because of this that vehicle owners and drivers are frequently reminded to maintain standard vehicle condition and follow road safety rules and regulation especially from the Motor Vehicle Insurance Limited (MVIL), Road Traffic Authority (RTA) and by police at the occasional police roadblocks. However, these warnings are constantly neglected.
Most of the faulty and unregistered vehicles are in highly populated and isolated locations as well, operating with minimum monitoring from authorities.
One such case that highlights further the importance of road safety, was in NCD when a faulty 25-seater PMV Bus-9 crashed and caused a dangerous collision of five vehicles altogether at the Waigani crossing on Thursday 19th September.
The bus-9, operating the Gerehu and 4-mile route, had experienced brake failure while traveling from Ensisi to Waigani and crashed completely into a small sedan that stopped at the crossing, causing a collision of other vehicles stopped at that same crossing.
Fortunately, no major injuries or deaths were reported in this accident.
The first police officer from Waigani police stationed who arrived at the scene reported that no one was injured from the crash, including the pedestrians near the crossing.
Police once again call on vehicle owners to be more responsible by keeping their vehicles in good condition and fully registered to avoid such incidents and subsequent consequences