More than thousand deaths were recorded between January and November this year due to road crashes involving about 20,000 vehicles.
The staggering figures from the National Road Safety Authority involved more than 7,000 Commercial vehicles and more than 8,000 private vehicles.
Senior Manager at the National Road Safety Authority, Henry Asomani who gave the statistics on GBC’s Current Affairs Programme, ”FOCUS”, said most of the road crashes were due to speeding. He said to help reduce the number of crashes this yuletide, the Road Safety Authority has engaged five thousand NABCO personnel for an outreach at lorry stations to educate drivers on the need to maintain Safety on the road.
Deputy CEO of the DVLA, Prince Opoku Edusei said from next year, Commercial Taxi and Uber drivers will be registered by the DVLA with a special sticker embossed on their vehicles for identification.
He said though the Authority has digitalised most of its operations the activities of ”Goro boys” are still in the system.
Mr Edusei said the DVLA has begun an internal cleaning to ward off unscrupulous Staff who aid these ”goro boys”.
Deputy Director Driver, Training, Testing and Licensing at the DVLA Kafui Semevor said from next year the Authority is introducing six local languages in the licensing regime to make up for those who cannot read or write.
Director General of the Police Public Affairs Directorate, ACP David Eklu said the Police are investigating the recent armed robbery at Potsin junction on the Accra-Cape Coast Road.
ACP Eklu said the Police have taken the issue very serious because of the heavy Police presence on that stretch of the road. He said no arrest has been made yet. He however cautioned the public to take their personal security seriously.
