Committee and other agencies are failing to reduce the spate of road
accidents in the country, as communities like the Wa Municipality
continue to record high fatalities through motor accidents.
Last year, the Wa town alone recorded 73 per cent of the 82 road
accidents that occurred in the Upper West Region, which led to a total
of 79 deaths. Mr Ambrose Dery, the Regional Minster disclosed this in
an address read on his behalf at the opening
of a two-day educational campaign on road safety for parents, teachers
and school children in the Wa Municipality at Wa on Thursday.He said
multi-sector, multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary dimension was
needed to address the problem of accidents on the country's roads
instead of relying solely on law enforcement agencies.
Mr Dery was happy to note that a series of training of Trainers
workshops had been organized nation-wide for over 5,000 teachers as
one of the major strategies formulated to reduce accidents.He enjoined
parents, guardians and teachers to consider themselves as active
partners in the crusade to enforce road traffic regulations.Deputy
Superintendent of Police, Mr Peter Ndekugri, who heads the Motor
Traffic and Transport Unit of the Police Service in the region, said
25 per cent of all pedestrian accidents involved people under 16 years
of age.He appealed to the general public to cooperate with the law
enforcement agencies to make sanity prevail on the roads.
06 April 06
