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Wa town leads in road accidents in Upper
West
WA, April 6, GNA - Numerous
campaigns by the National Road Safety 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.
GNA
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