 The accident was blamed on the lack of weighbridges in Zambia to check the weight of trucks.In August 2007 the governments of Zambia and Botswana announced a deal to construct a bridge at the site to replace the ferry.The existence of a short boundary of about between Zambia and Botswana was apparently agreed to during various meetings involving heads of state and/or officials from all four states in the 2006-10 period and is clearly shown in the African Development Fund project map,
matching the US Department of State Office of the Geographer depiction in Google Earth.