No one should be above road safety laws 


THE early morning crash at the Maju Junction intersection on Aug 19, where a father and his two young daughters lost their lives and the mother was seriously injured, raises a question we cannot ignore: Do our roads become dangerous when vehicles with official status are given priority?

Increasingly, motorists see vehicles with blue flashing lights approaching at high speed, sometimes expecting other vehicles to move aside or change lanes immediately.

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