Parliament amends road traffic law to protect unborn child LISTEN
It is to ensure the protection of an unborn child on the country’s roads.
It seeks to amend the Road Traffic Act, 2004 (Act 683) and prohibits acts constituting dangerous cycling and driving leading to the injury or death of unborn children and related matters.
Under the bill, the law will recognise the loss of an unborn child as a distinct loss, not only an injury suffered by a pregnant woman.
The Bill will also ensure that cyclists and drivers who cause death or injury to an unborn child through their actions are given harsher punishments while imposing on the driver, a duty to report to the police, accidents that result in the death of an unborn child as soon as possible.
Parliament has passed the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill, 2020 which is targeted at protecting the unborn child on the roads.
The bill seeks to amend the Road Traffic Act, 2004 (Act 683) to proscribe acts that constitute dangerous driving and cycling that result in injury and or death of unborn children and related matters.
If assented to, the bill will ensure that the law recognises the loss of an unborn child as a separate and distinct loss and not only an injury suffered by a pregnant woman.
Besides, it will impose harsher punishment on drivers and cyclists whose actions cause injury or death to an unborn child.