The Western Regional Director of the National Road Safety Authority, Victor Kojo Bilson has given an insight into the surge of road carnage in the country.
A recent report issued by the National Road Safety Authority revealed that 1,237 people lost their lives to road accidents between January and June this year.
According to the NRSA, most of these fatalities resulted from wrongful overtaking and drivers’ failure to observe traffic signs.
Given the region breakdown, Mr. Bilson mentions that the region is not doing well regarding road usage behaviour.
” Once we have human beings manning these vehicles, and we have human beings walking, it comes to tell you that if the mix is heavy then the probability of you getting injured or being killed on the road is also very high. Because we look at the population, and vehicular everything, all that aside what do we observe when we go out to town?
Look at the speeding limit, even in the urban centre that is why the pedestrian knockdown stands at 80. The region is not doing well looking at the number of crashes, the Western region is number 5, and still 5 on the number of people injured on our roads, and number of people killed on our roads, the Western region is number 4.
Very soon, we’ll be on our podium if you and I do not change our driving behaviours,”
Mr. Bilson said, that to curb or reduce road accidents, stringent measures have been implemented to help address the menace on our roads.
Mr. Bilson spoke in an interview with Arafat Musah on the Western Echo show.
He resorted that, “We are dealing with DVLA and the MTTD, we are all coming together and that is going to augment what the Police is doing because, they cannot be everywhere.
And these are not the normal surveillance cameras we see around. These are special cameras.”
