Following a terrible tragedy at the Nairobi Expressway’s Mlolongo toll station caused by a speeding vehicle, Moja Expressway has implemented precautions to prevent similar incidents.
Speaking to local media, Samwel Kumba, Deputy Director of Corporate Communications at the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA), detailed some preventive measures that will be adopted including enforcing the speed limits.
Kumba stated that the Moja Expressway is implementing a comprehensive sensitization campaign to remind motorists of the necessity of complying to the 80km/hr speed restriction on the 27-kilometer stretch that runs from Mlolongo to Westlands.
On the main highway, the speed limit has been capped at 80 kilometers per hour and at 20 kilometers per hour while approaching toll stations.
The Act, signed by President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday, June 21, states that an anyone guilty of violating a speed restriction will have his or her driving license suspended for a term of not less than three years.
“However, if a motorist violates the speed limit rule more than three times, one is liable on conviction, to imprisonment for a term of not less than three months, or a fine of not less than twenty thousand shillings, or both,” the Act reads in part.
According to Kumba, toll station employees can now identify if a motorist exceeded the speed limit by calculating the time it takes to drive from the entry to the departure point.
He did, however, explain that the business that operates the Nairobi Expressway is unable to levy penalties on motorists who violate the laws because the constitution only authorizes traffic police officers to enforce traffic rules.
