Are Public Service Vehicle owners liable for road accidents.

News & Politics
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PSV drivers are employees tasked with the responsibility of delivering passengers and vehicles from one destination to another safely, often some drivers choose to do the job without due care and irresponsibly, without the knowledge or consent of vehicle owners. The careless antics of the driver get to the attention of the proprietor when it’s too late; driver, many passengers and vehicle are no more.

Many countries have a police reporting Roadwatch, which allows reporting unsafe drivers, a driver gets individually penalised, and their driving license may be temporary withdrawn pending retraining or get permanently banned from driving, if they pose too great a risk behind the wheel.

Perhaps a time has come to implement a reporting process; a designated customer service number, written on all PSV vehicles, to notify the vehicle owners/company when drivers put at risk both passengers and investment. Such reporting to include bribing police when the driver\vehicle is in error. The drivers and conductors will modify behaviour, than risk becoming unemployed, it may also reduce police bribing, which encourages overall irresponsible dangerous conduct on the roads. Vehicle owners in Kenya must be made to take responsible for the conduct of their employees, vehicle owners need to be held jointly liable for accidents.

In other countries companies or owners have the reporting telephone numbers at the back of commercial vehicles, to allow the public report the drivers, proprietors take full responsibility for the actions of the drivers they employee - warning and eventual sacking them.

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There is alot of dust and mud in kenya . The driver and conductor will smear mud on that number to call. Case closed. People need to change culture . Other things will follow

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not only that,out there you are insured as long as you are in a PSV,just like you are insured while flying,so in case of an accident,the company is liable to some degree.Hapa kenya naona watu wakidedi alafu wanaita harambee whereas they can seek some form of compensation.Maybe i’m getting it wrong but how does kenya PSV insurance work?

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Kenyans like cheap and cutting corners. You will find a person who owns a brand new Mercedes taking said Mercedes to a class 3 drop out Mechanic ati because the guy is cheap. Mechanic hatakataa kazi. Atajifunza na hio gari yako.

Or a woman needs a surgery. Na ni mwili yake na si ati hana pesa anaenda hapa Kasarani ama Githurai. Mbona mnalia mkimzika baadaye?

Wengine wanakataa dawa ya hospitali unaenda Kamirithu… Kamirithu will cure the cancer in those balls, sio?

Another one juu ameskia kuna pesa in farming will throw in several millions into a green house or other project… ati farming is easy, you don’t need to know much… Haiya. Lia pekee yako basi.

Mwingine umesomeshwa na mashida. Ume tarmac miaka kadhaa. Mungu akuhurumie upate kazi KRA ama Land’s office ama pale kwa passport. First order of business: STEALING! Yaani unakataa na hizo passports and block a whole country, the whole fucking day…

Watu wametoka Kisumu kutafuta passport na umekataa nazo ati juu unataka 2k ya nyama pale Njugunas! Na hukuwa na kazi last year. You can’t even consider the damage you are causing to the economy and to people’s lives… ati ndio ununue Subaru.

Kama ni nyumba, you will take 30 million from your account, YOUR BANK ACCOUNT… and yet you claim to be smart… you take 30 or 40 million (saved from your passport stealing enterprise) and with your SMARTNESS ignore an architect, ignore an engineer, juu uko na pesa na Mkenya akiwa na pesa he is a “genius”… unapatia 30 million kwa contractor, hata hutaki kujua kama alisoma!

You give 30 million to a guy who is a former stone mason simply because he has promised to add 20 extra units to the drawing! Unalia kwa nini nyumba ikibomoka??? Mbona unapata heart attack?? Sasa ona umeua watu ishirini… GREED. Cutting corners.

Unachaguliwa Rais wewe Mkenya. Sasa umefika. Hakuna mtu anaeza kuambia. Unachukuwa ma loan kama mwenda… hakuna mtu umeuliza, you are going on gut instinct. Sisi tunakuangalia tu! Ikiibiwa… kukithuka unauliza ufanye nini? You can’t jail them, they are billionaires now like you. Hawatishiki rahisi.

Matatu hivo hivo. You spend millions to buy the bus. You don’t bother who drives this thing…do they even wash it or not? Hio sio shida yako. Mwaka moja kitu ishazeeka. YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO DRIVES YOUR BUS. Or care about his qualifications. A millions of shillings investment!

Hata huwezi enda factory na mechanic proffessional mwuangalie ile chuma inatwumiwa na Mhindi. Kama amechomelea poa. I mean it’s your money anyway, your investment…

Just make sure the glass is shatter proof. Or the speed governor works or the seats have good seat belts. Sasa matatu imepotea, watu wamekufa. Hutafungwa ndio, juu uko na pesa. Lakini ujue hio ni damu imemwagika sio maji. The same to those who willingly sell faulty parts in River Road. Etcetera Etcetera.

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Very true, people in this nation are used to mediocrity…and if the govt starts a crack-down on these criminal drivers, you start hearing complains…when the county govt start demolishing illegal and dangerous flats, we start claiming it will chase away investors… thefuck

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This country is depressing

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Michuki adjusted the traffic act and dileaneted makosa ya der, ya Fonda ya abiria ya gari na ya mwenye gari. You cannot for example charge a driver alone with worn tires because he doesn’t have authority to buy new ones, hio ni makosa ya mwenyewe