Officials of Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) have released the guidelines for the planned psychiatric examination of traffic offenders billed to commence on July 1, 2017 across the country.
The Corp's Public Education Officer Bizi Kazeem who made the guidelines public at a media parley held in Abuja stated that the test will focus on life-threatening offences such as use of phones while driving, route violation, traffic light violation, dangerous driving as well as overloading.
He added that offenders will bear the full cost of the test which will be conducted at a public hospital and also have their driver's license withdrawn pending the confirmation of their sanity.
Kazeem hinted that the policy was necessitated by incessant crashes arising from avoidable violation of traffic laws. “The move arose from observed aggravating crashes and disobedience to road traffic laws and regulation. This nation can no longer watch the lives and property of its citizens wasted by a few nonconformists on the highways.’’
