The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has encouraged members of the public to be ambassadors for roads safety. The Upper East Regional Assistant Planning Officer of NRSA Seth Wiredu stated that if motorists and pedestrians alike adhere to all road traffic regulations, it will reduce the instances of road accidents on the road.
Mr. Wiredu was speaking to Host of A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East Show, Samuel Mbura on recent statistics from the Authority that stated that 77 people had died from road accidents in the Upper East Region within 9 months.
“I humbly want to entreat each and every one of us to act as road safety ambassadors wherever they find themselves. You do not have to be in a reflective jacket before you will add your voice to the menace happening on our roads,” he said.
Mr. Wiredu expressed worry that the Authority had begun to record an increasing number of persons aged below 18 losing their lives through road accidents. In the 3rd quarter, 19 males lost their lives through road accidents while 4 females lost their lives.
Background
A total of 77 people have died and 190 sustained various degrees of injury from motor crashes in the Upper East Region, between January and September this year. These were caused by 175 road crashes out of which 128 involved motorbikes while 47 cases were with cars.
Mr Abdulai Bawa Ghamsah, the Upper East Regional Manager of the National Road Safety Authority, said this at the inauguration of a Road Safety Task force in Navrongo to augment the service of the NRSA in the Kassena Nankana Municipality, Upper East Region. He said the high rate of road crashes in the region was worrying and the Task Force was one of the measures taken by the authority to curb the situation.
Mr Ghamsah said the mandate of the task force would include; road safety inspection, removal of ‘killer’ lamps on vehicles and motorbikes, decongestion of the Navrongo town roads and clear the pedestrians walk ways, check overloading by passenger cars and do pre-starter checks among others.
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