NSRC Launches Road Safety Week
By GNA - Ghana News Agency General News | Tue, 28 Oct 2008
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The National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) yesterday braced itself up for the election euphoria as it launched this year's Road Safety Week purposely to ensure a crash free election.
The safety week will, on Saturday be climaxed with a walk involving all the political parties, after which President John Agyekum Kufuor will make a statement calling for the parties' support in this direction.
Every election year has witnessed an increase in road accidents as a result of disregard for safety regulations during campaign trips and the jubilations for victory after the election.
The NRSC expects political parties to demonstrate commitment through their actions and pronouncements on political platforms and to clearly declare their strategic vision for road safety, Mr Noble John Appiah, Executive Director, NRSC, said in Accra.
He said making Ghana the safest road transportation country remains the vision of the NRSC and expressed the hope that with collective support of stakeholders, this feat can be achieved.
'Road safety is a shared responsibility. All must be seen playing their part in the areas of advocacy, resource mobilisation and demanding road safety from politicians, policy makers and statutory agencies,' Mr Appiah added.
Mr Magnus Opare Asamoah, Deputy Minister of Transportation, said government is not happy with the road safety situation in the country, adding it deprived the economy of 1.6 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product in 2006, an estimated amount of over 160 million dollars.
About 2,655 road crashes involving 4,380 vehicles which have accounted for 346 deaths and 2,182 injuries have been recorded for the third quarter of the year.
At least four persons lose their lives daily due to road casualties and about 1,600 die annually with 8,000 others suffering serious injuries.
The Deputy Minister said although the figures are not encouraging, Ghana is not the third accident-prone country in the world as reported.
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Source: GNA - Ghana News Agency
The safety week will, on Saturday be climaxed with a walk involving all the political parties, after which President John Agyekum Kufuor will make a statement calling for the parties' support in this direction.
Every election year has witnessed an increase in road accidents as a result of disregard for safety regulations during campaign trips and the jubilations for victory after the election.
The NRSC expects political parties to demonstrate commitment through their actions and pronouncements on political platforms and to clearly declare their strategic vision for road safety, Mr Noble John Appiah, Executive Director, NRSC, said in Accra.
He said making Ghana the safest road transportation country remains the vision of the NRSC and expressed the hope that with collective support of stakeholders, this feat can be achieved.
'Road safety is a shared responsibility. All must be seen playing their part in the areas of advocacy, resource mobilisation and demanding road safety from politicians, policy makers and statutory agencies,' Mr Appiah added.
Mr Magnus Opare Asamoah, Deputy Minister of Transportation, said government is not happy with the road safety situation in the country, adding it deprived the economy of 1.6 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product in 2006, an estimated amount of over 160 million dollars.
About 2,655 road crashes involving 4,380 vehicles which have accounted for 346 deaths and 2,182 injuries have been recorded for the third quarter of the year.
At least four persons lose their lives daily due to road casualties and about 1,600 die annually with 8,000 others suffering serious injuries.
The Deputy Minister said although the figures are not encouraging, Ghana is not the third accident-prone country in the world as reported.
Continued
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