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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has approved the Traffic and Road Safety (Amendment) Bill, 2023 which will among others provide for a speed limit in the Act to ease the control of speed limit through the express penalty scheme.
As passed, a person who fails to comply with a speed limit set under Subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a fine not exceeding Shs2m or imprisonment not exceeding three years or both. The previous fine wash sh200,000.
This particular clause has been referred to the sectoral Committee on Finance for further scrutiny.
Driving job is the most risky job but the least paid otherwise a driver should work for a short period of time and quit for other business, now that the fine for over speeding is 2million how can we drivers manage to pay this heavy fine when actually we can’t even save this money, the only thing will be to rot in prison for the three years and family remains suffering , have mercy on us please, indeed over speeding is dangerous , drivers need sensitisation to minimize accident and attend driving course in an approved technical school and should be able to have driving certificate and be able to know the road signs and traffic regulations for smooth use of the road, thanks.