Vision for Alternative Development (VALD) a road safety non-government organization, has expressed worry over the rise in the number of recent road crashes on our streets.
A statement signed by Programmes Director VALD, Mr Labram Musah and copied to Today in Accra yesterday raised alarm over the situation, and stressed that the “carnage on our roads must stop.
According the group, the incidence is getting out of control amidst the education by the National Road Safety Commission(NRSC), civil society organizations and other relevant institutions.
It stated that over speeding, wrong overtaking, no seat belt wearing, no helmet wearing, inattentiveness, keeping children below 5 years in front seat and gross indiscipline are known to be the causes of most of these accidents.
The National Road Safety Commission as of the end of November 2016, had recorded a total of 11, 378 road crashes nationwide involving 17,746 vehicles, of which the total number of casualties stood at 12,154 comprising of 1, 990 deaths and 10, 154 injuries.
According to the statement, the inadequate/lack of speed cameras, breathalyzers, speed guns, bad road, fade or no markings etc. are some key causes of road crashes.
It said the onus however falls on “all of us as citizens to rise up and change the status quo adding that it will take a collective effort from everyone to check these menace that is fast destroying our nation”.
“We must learn to play a watchdog role, express a concern to a driver when he is over speeding or doing something that will endanger your life and lives of others,” it said.
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