Sedie tragedy should inspire safe driving

The nation is in mourning. It has now been confirmed that 12 students of Sedie Community Junior Secondary School in Maun have died in a road accident. Just one life is a loss too many. For 12 people to die is a tragedy.

At this time of loss it is very easy to start pointing accusing fingers in every direction. We could of course blame the road engineering, over-grown bushes on our highways and congested roads that are used by big haulage trucks that hog the road.
But this is a time of tragedy and we need to be commiserating with the relatives without pointing accusing fingers in any direction for that can only distract us from attending to the job at hand.


This is a tragedy and it is understandable why people would want an end to road accidents that continue to gobble up young Batswana.
 There could of course be a mechanical error in most of these accidents but we believe that in the majority of cases there is something that we can do to put an end to this menace, once and for all.

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