NRSC to reduce fatalities in last quarter of the year
The Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) of the Ashanti Regional Police Command is collaborating with the regional office of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) and other stakeholders to ensure that road fatalities are reduced in the last quarter of the year.
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The last quarter of the year has always been critical in terms of road accidents considering activities before and during Christmas festivities in the country.
Statistics available to the Daily Graphic shows that while 58 and 43 deaths were recorded at the end of the first and second quarters respectively, 100 deaths were recorded at the end of the third quarter of this year.
It is against this background that the Ashanti Regional MTTU Commander, Chief Superintendent Peter Gyimah, in an interview with the Daily Graphic in Kumasi, said the police, the NRSC and other stakeholders were poised to reduce road carnage in the region.
He said the MTTU had been resourced with reader guns to check the speed limit of drivers, especially those who use the highways from the Ashanti Regional capital of Kumasi to destinations in other regions.
Again, he said the MTTU had been resourced with a machine to check the alcohol content of drivers, saying that the alcohol in drivers should not be more than 0.08 per cent and that those who were caught drunk while driving and speeding would be dealt with by the law.
He recalled that 24 persons lost their lives in only one road accident at Boankra near Ejisu in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality in August, attributing that and many similar fatalities to speeding and wrong overtaking.
He maintained that the police had been doing well in terms of reducing the carnage on our roads and called for the support of the general public as well.
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In the third quarter in the Ashanti Region, 12 persons were killed in road accidents in September, while 55 and 33 died in road accidents in August and July respectively.