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General News of Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-03-26
Inusah Fuseini
Inusah Fusieni, former Minister of Roads and Roads, called for the ban on night-time travel by private vehicles following the tragic bus crash on the Techiman-Kintampo road, which left more than 60 dead last Friday .
"We should take a courageous and bold decision to ban overnight trips of pbadenger vehicles," said the former minister at Citi News.
Mr Fuseini believes that such an approach will significantly reduce road accidents in the country.
He also insisted that there was sufficient evidence that long, far-away journeys at night contributed greatly to road accidents.
"Why would we allow drivers to continue driving at night while they could enjoy the sun providing over a thousand watts of light to see everywhere … driving at night can subject the body of a driver to many events; exhaustion is the worst culprit. "
Referring to the MP's proposal, the Director of Education, Research and Training at the Police Traffic and Police Transport, Alexander Obeng, called for a national dialogue on the issue.
He also indicated that an badessment of Ghana's transport system was needed in this regard.
"It's a matter of public discourse. If we want to compare ourselves to public jurisdiction, we should look at the state of their transportation system. Here we depend only on the road. Elsewhere, even where roads are doubled, they depend heavily on the speed of railways and air support, which is convenient. "
Renewed road safety concerns after the accident prompted a number of proposals, including calls for the duplication of all highways, the installation of speed inhibitors to prevent vehicles from traveling beyond the speed limit. a certain speed threshold and the use of two drivers during journeys of more than 4 hours.
In the accident on the Techiman-Kintampo road, two buses collided between 1:40 am and 2 am.
The accident involved a VVIP Kia bus from Garu in the Upper East region for Kumasi and a Grandbird bus from Accra to Bolgantaga, also in the Upper East region.
A mbad burial was organized for 39 people who died from burns caused by a burn.
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