How Ghana lost 30 lives, injured 87 others in five days through road carnages
With a little over three months to Christmas, the rate of accidents claiming lives in the country is mind boggling.
30 persons including children lost their lives and 87 others injured through four separate road crashes within a week.
These are just the ones that caught the eye of the media, with others believed to have happened on the blind side of the entire nation.
At the begining of the week, some 14 lives were lost on Tuesday, September 15, 2020, when a cargo truck crashed into two buses at the Kyekyewere Community stretch of the Accra to Kumasi Highways in the Eastern Region.
The said accident injured 50 other passengers who were involved in the crash.
After some few hours, two passenger cars, a Ford Transit with the Registration number GS 6031- 20 and a Toyota Hiace with the Registration Number GR 5059-20 claimed 6 lives and injured 7 others on the Kasoa-Cape Coast highway.
Six passengers died on the spot after the cars they were travelling in were involved in a head-on collision at Gomoa Adam near Gomoa Anteadze in the Central region.
Some six young footballers also died in an accident that occurred at Offinso in the Ashanti Region, Saturday, September 19, 2020.
The development also left 30 other players in critical condition.
Sources say the children, aged between 12 and 15 were returning from Afrancho to Offinso after undergoing colts division registration when the accident occurred.
An Opel Astra and Hyundai minibus crash also perished four lives at Somanya in the Eastern region.
The incident occurred on the University of Environment and Sustainable Development stretch near Akorley at Somanya in the Yilo Krobo Municipality.
Three lives were claimed on the spot with another later passing on at the hospital.
It is saddening how many lives are being lost through accidents which many could have been prevented with a little carefulness.
Drivers are implored to be vigilant and exercise some level of restraints on some of the things they do which cause these accidents.
The Motor Traffic and Transport Department of the Ghana Police Service and the National Road Safety Commission should be up and doing in helping curb these anomalies.
However, the greatest responsibility lie on the citizenry to be responsible and ensure those behind the steering on any vehicle they find themselves in are put on track whenever they exhibit any act of irresponsibility.
It is a collective effort which all must contribute to bring it to fruition.
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