The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has initiated a process to roll out a new policy for the removal of disabled vehicles from the road. The policy provides three options for funding the removal of breakdown vehicles to safety. The policy gives the Ghana Police Service the mandate to compulsorily tow vehicles that have broken […]
The Police administration is promising to deploy more men on the country’s roads as a step to address the high incidence of vehicular accidents. The Director-General of the Police Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD), DCOP Francis Aboagye Nyarko made the promise at a 2-day training for Police and Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority accident […]
The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) says it has begun an exercise across the country to remove illegal lamps from vehicles and initiate prosecution of offending drivers. The exercise being carried out in collaboration with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority [DVLA] and the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, […]
The Ghana Police Service has started the prosecution of 252 people whose vehicles have been captured by special police monitoring cameras across the country for traffic violations. The special cameras, which are installed at all traffic intersections and vantage points throughout the country as part of the Traffic Monitoring and Surveillance Centre, captured the offenders […]
The number of road users killed in the first quarter of 2019 has recorded a 17.57% increase over figures for the first quarter of 2018. Commuters and pedestrians killed increased from 592 in the first quarter of 2018 to 696 in the same period of 2019. Age range of males killed The number of males […]
The number of people killed in January this year has risen to 197, as against the 180 killed in January 2018, representing a 9.4% increase. The fatalities comprised 149 males and 48 females. 66 Pedestrians killed Data compiled by the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) indicates that the number of pedestrians killed witnessed a […]
Former President Jerry John Rawlings a while ago was spotted directing traffic on the main Prampram –Aflao road. The founder of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) was said to be on a journey but had to alight from his Toyota Landcruiser V8 vehicle and took on the responsibility of the Motor Traffic and Transport […]
