Reducing road accidents: NPP calls for speed alarms in vehicles

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called for a legislation to make it mandatory for the installation of speed alarms in passenger vehicles.

According to the NPP, such legislation would help reduce the number road accidents especially due to over speeding if not reduce them.

The NPP’s call follows recent road crashes at Winneba and Kintampo, leading to the loss of over 60 lives.

In a statement issued and signed on Monday by the Director of Communications, Nana Akomea, the NPP cited over-speeding and reckless driving as the main causes of road accidents and urged government to end the rhetoric anytime there was an accident.

It said: “The common thread in these tragic accidents has mainly been reckless driving, manifest in over speeding, by drivers of long distance passenger buses. This problem has been long identified. Pragmatic solutions have also been long advocated and agreed. However, the rhetoric has not been backed by the needed leadership to implement the pragmatic measures we all agree are necessary to reduce these tragic accidents.”

The statement further urged government to immediately initiate processes to legislate the policy, to make it mandatory for all long distance passenger vehicles to be fitted with speed alarms.

“The loud warning alarm anytime a driver goes beyond an agreed limit, all agree, will be best way to limit over speeding in long distance passenger buses and hence reduce these accidents that result from this reckless over speeding. This will be the best way of ensuring that those who have died at Kintampo would not have died in vain,” the statement said.