Monday, April 27, 2026

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Excess household work could be as deadly as excess drinking during the Christmas season, warned road safety experts.

Senior traffic police and a road safety advocate want drivers to not only pay attention to how much they drink before getting behind the wheel but how hard they have been working or how much they are sleep-deprived.

Assistant Superintendent of Police Ronald Stanford, Inspector Richard Boyce and Sharmaine Roland-Bowen, president of the Barbados Road Safety Association, made a collective appeal to all road users as the Yuletide season kicks into high gear with Christmas next week and an anticipated spike in road accidents.

Please read the full story in today’s Saturday Sun, or in the eNATION edition.

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