The change came into force following a radio announcement at 5.50 local time (16:50 UTC) which halted traffic and an announcement at 6.00 (15:00 UTC) for traffic to switch from the right to the left side of the road. Samoa thus became the first territory in over thirty years to change which side of the road is driven on, the previous most recent to change having been Okinawa (1978), South Yemen (1977), Ghana (1974) and Nigeria (1972).
the change came into force following a radio announcement at 550 local time (1650 utc) which halted traffic and an announcement at 600 (1500 utc) for traffic to switch from the right to the left side of the road samoa thus became the first territory in over thirty years to change which side of the road is driven on the previous most recent to change having been okinawa (1978) south yemen (1977) ghana (1974) and nigeria (1972)