Passengers are mainly responsible for road accidents – Drivers

General News of Thursday, March 28, 2019

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

2019-03-28

Ghanaian motorists have blamed pbadengers for road accidents because of the constant pressure they exert on them while driving.

According to the drivers, the pbadengers often bombard them with insults when they fail to meet their expectations.

By making the pbadengers offer, drivers exceed their speed to avoid all kinds of insults and name calls.

Recalling some of the names and insults given to them, the driver said: "Once, I drove from here to Kintampo. A woman told me to stop driving and work on something else because I drive slowly. She tells me plainly that I should work on the farm because driving is not for me. "

"Most of the causes are due to pbadengers, they hate when a different car bypbades them and they will put pressure on you, the car is too slow, can not you go too fast, we stayed in the car too long, why we have not reached our destination yet, so they put too much pressure on us, "revealed another.

The drivers also indicated that the pbadengers sometimes spoke to them in hard tones, which annoyed them; why they often ignore the shouts of pbadengers when they complain on a bus.

They also asked the government to put in place a policy guaranteeing that two drivers remain on a bus during long journeys in order to relieve others when the driver is tired.

According to them, fatigue is also a factor of road accident.

They therefore implore the government to implement this policy and to ensure that car owners are obliged to use two drivers for their buses.

They believe that it will help reduce the number of accidents on our roads.

Context

On Friday, March 22, 2019, about 90 people were confirmed in two separate accidents in the areas of Bono East and Center.

A bloody collision in Amoma Nkwanta, near Jema, in Kintampo Sud district, in the Bono Est region, claimed the lives of about 55 pbadengers (35 of whom were burned beyond recognition) and scores of wounded.

Also in Ekumfi Abor, on the Winneba-Cape Coast highway, in the central region, more than 30 people were reportedly killed in an accident involving a Yutong bus traveling from Takoradi to Accra and a Mbad subway bus to Cape Town. Coast.

Parts of the body littered the scene as blood flowed everywhere with the wounded transported to the Winneba Trauma Hospital and Mankessim Catholic Hospital, while the deceased's bodies were deposited in the morgue of the same hospital.

Although Ghana's roads are considered the safest on the continent, the absence of double-carriageway roads leading to major cities has been cited as a contributing factor to accidents, many of them resulting in death.

A number of registered cases are also attributable to the negligence of the driver, while many others are due to mechanical defects.

Estimates show that Ghana loses more than 230 million dollars a year due to road accidents. The loss is 1.7% of the country's gross domestic product.

The NRSC announced in 2010 that there were 19 deaths per 10,000 vehicles in Ghana. Statistics showed that 43% of the victims were pedestrians and 53% were vehicle occupants. And 23% of all pedestrian deaths involved children under 16 years of age.

According to the NRSC, the main cause of road accidents in Ghana is due to excessive speed. This represents 60% of car accidents in the country.