PASSENGERS URGED TO BE ACTIVE ROAD USERS
The National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) has launched the Passenger Empowerment and Easter Campaign dubbed “Passengers, Speak Up! Don’t Get Killed on the road”. The campaign is a prelude amongst others to scale up road user education during the festive season. The Passenger Empowerment and Easter Campaign is to ensure that passengers aboard commercial vehicles demand safety from transport operators at lorry terminals and also to take active interest in road safety.Passenger fatalities constitute about 23 percent of road traffic crashes ranging from 400 to 600 in the last decade. Performing the launch of the campaign, Minister of Transport, Hon. Dzifa Aku Attivor noted that between 2010 and 2012, about 1,184 persons have been killed as passengers with several others sustaining injuries. She explained that the problem of passenger deaths exists because the transport industry, largely dominated by private...
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6 PERISH IN SEGE ACCIDENT
By: Doreen Andoh. Graphic Online Six persons died on the spot yesterday when a Mercedes Sprinter bus burst its tyre and somersaulted several times at Sege on the Tema-Aflao road. Many other passengers sustained various degrees of injury in the accident that occurred about 1:30 p.m. The Hohoe-bound bus, with registration number VR 5044-14, was travelling from Madina when the accident occurred. Police account The Ada District Police Commander, Chief Superintendent of Police Mr Hlordzi Dodzi, who confirmed the tragedy to the Daily Graphic in a telephone interview, said the bodies which were yet to be identified had been deposited at the Ada District Hospital morgue. He said the injured, who are also yet to be identified, were receiving treatment at the same hospital. According to Mr Dodzi, the bus burst a tyre at Sege, resulting in it somersaulting...
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