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944 killed in accidents from January to June

The NRSC says a total of 944 people were killed in vehicle crashes between January and June this year

 

The National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) has revealed that 944 deaths have so far been recorded through road accidents in the country from January to June this year.

Statistics from the Ministry of Roads and Transport indicated there were 6,384 crashes involving 9,914 vehicles within the same period.

According to the Ministry of Transport, though the crashes and vehicles involved saw 19.96 per cent and 19.20 per cent reductions respectively in the figures, these figures still needed to be reduced.

In a speech read on behalf of the Minister of Roads and Transport, Ms Dzifa Attivor at the mid-year performance review conference of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) in Cape Coast, she said though Ghana was ranked first among 23 countries in Africa by the Economic Commission of Africa (ECA) in respect of the implementation of most road safety action plans developed within the framework of the UN Decade of Action for Road Safety initiative, the ministry was unhappy with the current road casualty situation.

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The conference was also to launch the 2015-2017 national road safety action plan which forms part of the 2011-2020 national blueprint for the National Road Safety Strategy III.

“We need improvement in our road safety situation in order to meet our national targets at the end of the decade,”she said, and called for effective collaboration among all stakeholder institutions to achieve this.

The Executive Director of the NRSC, Mrs May Obiri-Yeboah, noted that there was a crucial need to strengthen collaboration to help reduce road disasters.

“The commission has been  working with its stakeholders to develop strategies and action plans based on data and research to implement  measures and systems that are expected to motivate and improve our national road safety situation,” she stated.

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