How will you feel if you discover
that majority of bus drivers that take you around in Lagos state are partially
blind? What would you do in such situation where you presently have no car of
your own? Will you continue to take the risk?
Mr. Ayodeji Oyedokun, is the Chief
Executive Officer CEO, Lagos State Drivers’ Institute LASDRI. He has explained to Vanguard on the
activities of the institution for over four years as well as the challenges: This is what he said about Lagos drivers; “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.
*A driver under going an eye test
*A driver under going an eye test
“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.
Statistics of trained drivers as
well as detected defects by LASDRI Optometrist
•From January to July, 2013,
12,017 drivers were trained and recertified.
•From August 25, 2009 to July,
2013, a total number of 65,000 drivers trained.
•Out of the 65,000 of drivers
tested, 22 percent (approximately, 14,300 drivers) were found to be suffering
from eye defects, such as myopia and were later referred to ophthalmologists
for corrective measure.
•And 99.2 per cent of drivers
with eye defects were males, while 1.8 percent were females.
•1.8 per cent of the detected
defects were myopic (short sighted) while 12.9 percent were pre-myopic
•3.3 percent long sighted
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