Seventeen persons have been arrested and charged as motorists have breached traffic regulations by transporting persons in the tray and goods compartment of the trucks and other goods transportation vehicles, without permission.
According to the police, the traffic department has traffic department has intensified enforcement as it has been recently observed that owners/drivers of motor lorries and motor vans/goods transportation vehicles, have been transporting persons in the tray and goods compartment areas of these vehicles without the due permission, in breach of the Traffic Regulations.
As a result, the police force is seeking to publicise the laws for the benefit of all concerned. The traffic department noted that Section 165 of the Motor Vehicles and Road Traffic Regulations Chapter 51:02 states:
(1) Except with written permission of the prescribed authority and in accordance therewith there shall not be carried in or on any motor lorry any persons other than such number as the seating accommodation in the cab of such vehicle would permit.
(2) In any permission given under this regulation there shall be specified the number of persons that may be carried in the tray of the vehicle, and where more than five persons are so permitted to be carried the prescribed authority shall specify in the permission the type of seating accommodation to be used.
(3) The driver of a motor lorry in which any person is carried other than in the cab of such vehicle shall, on being so required by a police constable, produce the written permission for such carriage.
(4) This regulation shall not apply to any motor lorry owned or operated by the Guyana Defence Force or the Guyana Police Force.
