713 persons already involved in road accidents

Accra, March 28, GNA – The Director General of the Motor Transport Traffic Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Alex Amponsah Asiamah, has said out of 713 accidents cases reported from January to February 2017, 42 persons were killed and 440 injured.

He gave the statistics at the “Drink-Driving Enforcement and Standard Operating Procedure Training” in Accra aimed at correcting indiscipline and eradicating the carnage on our roads.

The programme, organised by the Global Road Safety Partnership and the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and sponsored by Bloomberg Initiative was to serve as a platform to ensure cohesion in the transport sector to ensure that issues related to driving was addressed.

“It was also to sharpen the MTTD personnel’s skills and update their knowledge on issues that border on international best practices and successes in drink driving and problem, and barriers of effective enforcement,” he said.

DCOP Asiamah urged the participants to focus on the issues and digest them to make effective inputs which would serve as the basis for achieving the aims and objectives of the current policy direction of the Police Administration.

He expressed gratitude to the Bloomberg Initiative support in the area of enforcement equipment donated to the Police Administration to enable them enforce road traffic laws efficiently.

Mohammed Adjei Sowah, Accra Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) expressed concern about the high level of indiscipline among commercial drivers and for an improved existing standard procedure to bring sanity on the roads.

He said road safety is a matter general concern and shared responsibilities, adding that, the AMA was committed to Bloomberg Initiative and called for an effective solution to minimise road crashes.

He called on Bloomberg to continue to improve upon the condition of existing laws and urged the participants to go back and impact the knowledge they had acquired to the rank and file of their members.

He later donated 25 enforcement tools to enable the police to effectively enforce the laws.

Mr Benjamin Van Rooyen, the facilitator for Global Road Safety Partnership, said the workshop would establish an efficient and sustainable principle of effective enforcement.

He called on the police personnel to be committed to road safety programmes at the work place.

GNA

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