Speed Breakers Becoming Problematic!

?Meant to limit vehicle speed, some of these road signals have become a source of accidents.

Principally meant to calm down traffic on streets and strategic spots along the road where cars speed limit needs to be maintained, the importance of speed breaks, also known as a sleeping police or a lying-down policeman in developed countries cannot be overemphasised. In the country, it is common for road users to see a small area built across a road which automatically causes any oncoming driver to slow down. But the fact that some of the speed bumps found in certain areas in the town of Yaounde do not respect the required height, distance between each other as well as an indicator to road users that there is a speed bumps ahead, such structures have instead become sources of numerous road accidents.
Road users around the Petite Marché Fougerolle in the Elevéur neighbourhood in Yaounde are currently exposed to accidents because of an individual who has decided to place a series of speed along an undulating road. Eye witnesses revealed that the speed, which do not respect the required height and space, are located on a secondary road that connects to the main road along the Yaounde-Soa highway. Because of the hilly nature of the road and the poorly placed structures, cars driving from the main Yaounde-Soa highway cannot freely climb the road. This has resulted to a congestion of vehicles along the main Yaounde-Soa highway exposing car owners to the dangers of heavy duty vehicles plying that stretch of road.
Besides such uncivil acts, there are speed breaks, placed by authentic road experts but with no signpost to tell road users. Such is the case in certain neighbourhoods in Yaounde such as Kondengui, Nkolbission, Mvolye...