The Zimbabwe Cross-Border Traders Association (ZCBTA) has urged Government to ban public transporters from travelling during the night following a series of fatal accidents involving cross-border buses in recent months. 

The latest accident involving such buses occurred on Wednesday night, which claimed 43 people when a Lion King bus veered off the road in the Nyamakate area in Mashonaland West province and hit a tree.

Another fatal accident involving a cross-border transporter occurred in April when a Proliner bus was side-swiped by a haulage truck, killing at least 31 people along the Harare-Masvingo Highway, near Chaka Business Centre.

ZCBTA president Dr Killer Zivhu said in a statement yesterday that his association would consider seeking a court interdict to ensure buses were banned from the roads as from 9pm, if Government did not act.

He said most of the people being killed in such accidents were members of his association travelling to neighbouring countries.