{"id":1004,"date":"2022-09-23T15:04:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2022-09-23T15:05:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T15:05:06","slug":"errant-young-drivers-endanger-pupils-at-pedestrian-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=1004","title":{"rendered":"Errant young drivers endanger pupils at pedestrian crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Natalie S Nyathi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>23 September 2022<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>ZIM GBC NEWS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zebra crossing are designed to protect pedestrians from motorists and this is according to the high way code .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately nowadays drivers are so disrespectful on zebra crossing. Such drivers endanger the life of pedestrians especially school children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Mazda Axela registration number AFK 9742 driven by a young man who could be barely 20, rammed at the back of a Honda fit that had stopped just before a zebra crossing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The accident happened this afternoon at Coghlan Primary School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young man could have been driving under the influence of alcohol as some of his friends who were accompanying him were visible drunk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the damage incurred by the<br>Mazda Axela proved that he was speeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entire front bumper and the right side fender disloged and fell to the ground .The right headlight was totally damaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is by shire luck no student from Coghlan was injured .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When contacted for comment , Zimbabwe Republic Police Bulawayo Provincial Press liasing Officer Abedinigo Ncube said that police are deployed at zebra crossing when there is a need or at pick up hours .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pupils from Coghlan Primary School had just knocked off from school .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inspector Ncube went on to say ,&#8221;but what matters is that all motorists should know that where there is Zebra crossing and school children, it is upon them, actually its a requirement that they take note of that( the Zebra Crossing) .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As such motorists are urged to respect zebra crossing especially the one next to a school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ZIM GBC NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Natalie S Nyathi 23 September 2022 ZIM GBC NEWS Zebra crossing are designed to protect pedestrians from motorists and this is according to the high way code . Unfortunately&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}