Provisional data available to the National Road Safety Commission has revealed that 2015 saw a decrease in road accidents as compared to 2014.
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Road traffic accidents reduced in 2015 - NRSC
In the last three (3) years, Ghana has been consistent with reducing the cases of crashes and casualties.
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According to the NRSC, there was a 17.5% decrease in the number of reported road accidents from January to December 2015 as compared to statistics from the same period in 2014.
According to the Commission, "Compared to the situation in the same period in the year 2014, there were reductions in cases reported and vehicles involved in road traffic crashes by 17.3% and 17.02% respectively. Again, there were reductions in the number of deaths and injuries by 12% and 19% in 2015 over that of the figures recorded in 2014."
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In a statement, the Commission said, "These achievements were made possible as a result of the excellent collaboration between the NRSC and its stakeholders in addressing the core challenges within the road safety environment through Education, Engineering, Enforcement and Emergency response interventions.
Ing. (Mrs.) May Obiri-Yeboah, Executive Director of NRSC said, "We commend our partners and stakeholders for the excellent collaboration that made this happen."
"We need to remain focused and strategic in our approach and work harder to sustain the reducing trend towards achieving the national targets of not more than 830 deaths and 3,000 seriously injured on our roads by the year 2020 under the Global Decade of Action for Road Safety".
This year (2016), the Commission will lead the implementation of the 2015-2017 National Road Safety Action Plans (NRSAP) developed within the framework of the National Road Safety Strategy III 2011-2020.
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"Our focus for the year will be on Pedestrian deaths and injuries. Pedestrians represent the most vulnerable road user class in Ghana. An average of 38% of all road traffic related deaths are Pedestrian related.
"This year, the Commission will coordinate efforts towards reducing pedestrian vulnerabilities in road traffic through education and enforcement for positive road use behaviour and strongly advocate for safe physical/engineering measures for Pedestrians".
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The Commission has observed also that, political activities have impacted our road safety record in previous election years.
"We shall engage political parties as a major stakeholder on the need to mainstream global best road safety practices in their campaigns programmes and activities. We wish to express gratitude to all our stakeholders and partners for their continuous contribution to road safety improvement and urge that we continue to find avenues to deepen our collaboration in other that we can reach our targets for 2016," she added.
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