Reckless driving is a moving violation which is often treated as a misdemeanor. People who are convicted for reckless driving can face a fine, deportation, revocation of parole, and the suspension or cancellation of driver's license. In some areas, penalties for reckless driving vary, depending on the specifics of the offense, and the law may have several categories of reckless driving established.
In order to be considered reckless driving, activity on the road must include a demonstrated disregard for the safety of property, animals, and people.
There has, over the years, been a creeping culture of reckless driving on Nigerian roads, with resultant devastating consequences, including incalculable damages, physical disabilities of victims in accidents and loss of lives. Indeed, dangerous driving is now ‘Nigerian’.
The concern with reckless driving is that it poses a risk to the driver and to people in the surrounding area. Other drivers could be harmed if a car spun out of control, for example, and drivers could also injure or kill pets, children, and pedestrians by driving recklessly. In addition, drivers may cause property damage by driving into buildings. Thus, such behavior is not only inherently dangerous, but a public safety issue. On the other hand, however, politicians and political office holders’ convoys have not been less guilty.
There is an alarming level of transport inadequacy in Nigerian cities. This manifest in poor quality and low level of existing transport infrastructure. Severe congestion and a host of other transport externalities have become more or less a norm in Nigerian cities, thus resulting to an increasing rate of travel difficulties. International Society Against Reckless Driving [ ISARD] takes a critical look at transport poverty and consequent deviant driving behaviours in intermedia
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