The National Safety Partnership of Liberia (NASAPAL) urges the Government of Liberia to enforce the regulation on vehicle registration and licensing of drivers. Apart from threat being posed to public safety by unregistered vehicles and unlicensed operators, the Country parts with revenue that are normally accrued from registering and licensing road users mainly, vehicles and their operators.
NASAPAL’s call on the administration to stop the lukewarm action on this critical aspect of public safety is due to the dismal turnout of a brief survey the organization conducted to determine the vehicles that ply the streets with incomplete license plates.
For three (3) hours or 180 minutes, on Friday, March 25, 2024, a team of the public safety civil society organization sampled Heavy-duty vehicles, Pickup-trucks/Jeeps, Sedans and Buses that used the A.B. Tolbert Road in Paynesville City, and recorded the mentioned category of the vehicles that used the thoroughfare without plates in front, back or none at all.
The surveyors saw 314 of such vehicles. Of them, Sedans ranked highest with 150, amounting to 47.77% that did not have back-plates as was 56 Pickups/Jeeps averaging 17.83%; 6 Heavy-duty vehicles recording 1.91%; and 2 Buses resulting to 0.63%.
Regarding those without front-plates, Pickups/Jeeps topped with 16, culminating to 5.09%; Sedans 14, accruing 4.45% while Heavy-duty vehicles and Buses each scored 8, averaging 2.54% respectively.
Standing tall for having no plates at all, was Pickups/Jeeps with 28, resulting to 8.91%, followed by Sedans, 24, summing to 7.64%. On this problem, Heavy-duty vehicles and Buses partnered with each bagging 1, averaging 0.31% a piece.
The National Safety Partnership of Liberia (NASAPAL), one of the oldest public safety organizations in the Country, is deeply concerned that many vehicles are plying the streets with incomplete license plates. This must be deliberately corrected by the Government so that Liberia is seen as taking concrete actions to fulfill its commitment to the United Nations Declared Decade of Road Safety, and realization of the Sustainable Development Goals’ Targets 3.6 and 11.2 which seek to halve the number of global deaths and juries caused by road traffic crashes, and to provide accessible and sustainable transport systems as well as improve road safety for all, respectively.
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