Stastistics available to The Chronicle have revealed that about 95% of motorists speed above the stipulated limits on the highways, while 80% of motorists in rural highways also speed over the limit.
Dr. James Danso Dery, Senior Research Officer and Head of Transformation Engineering Division at CSIR – BRRT revealed this at the Ashanti regional consultation and stakeholders meeting organized by the National Road Safety Authority.
According to researcher, his outfit’s research on speeding and alcohol since 2015 revealed that, there is so much over speeding on our highways in areas where there are no speed bumps and, therefore, causing major road accidents in the country.
He said the mixture of many low and fast vehicles on roads also lead to loss of control, while the traditional speed bumps are not helping, which he said, was causing head-on collisions, back and waist pains among other problems. He noted that there is the need to encourage intelligence speed bumps with Rader guns to check speed limits on our roads to ensure the safety of motorists and road users.
Madam Mavis Obiri Yeboah, the Chief Executive Officer of National Road Safety Authority (NRSA), on her part, stressed that road safety was a collective effort and entreated the stakeholders and industry players and the general public to be committed to the needful to reverse the trend through collective efforts.
She said her outfit had rolled out three strategic plans over ten years from 2011 to 2020 under the mandate to coordinate road safety.
According to her, the meeting in the region was to evaluate the three strategies to assess their achievements over the decade.
The meeting was also to interact with the various stakeholders in the regions to enable them to evaluate what they have done, and how to cooperate with the new one which is strategy four in the next ten years.
Madam ObiriYeboah noted thatevaluation of the operations of the authority would enable officials to assess views of stakeholders towards implementation of the fourth strategy.
The NRSA boss mentioned the Non- commitment of stakeholders, funding, Human Resources and logistics as the main challenges facing the Authority.
She called on the president to empower the authority to succeed in coordinating road safety as mandated.
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