Transport Ministry to launch island-wide blitz to reduce road fatalities.

As road fatalities continue to hurdle out of control, the Ministry of Transport and Mining will on Saturday launch ‘Operation Zero Tolerance’, a joint venture between the Island Traffic Authority and the police.

Vando Palmer, the director of public relations and communication at the ministry, said the blitz will be conducted six days per week and fund for three-month period in the first instance.

Palmer said Transport and Mining Minister Mike Henry is very concerned about the number of fatal crashes and the rate at which the country is losing a large trunk of its human resource.

The operation will see police and personnel from the Island Traffic Authority conducting a series of round-the-clock spot checks.

They will be targeting defective vehicles, those with illegal lighting, including flashing blue lights and those that are heavily tinted, among other breaches of the Road Traffic Act.

Palmer said the rights of motorists will be observed and the police and Island Traffic Authority personnel will at all times be very respectful in conducting the operations, both day and night.

One hundred and thirty-six persons have been killed in one hundred and seventeen fatal crashes in 124 days since the start of the year.