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Ashanti Regional Police Command begins operations to halt accidents

By
Florence Afriyie Mensah, GNA

Kumasi, Aug 15, GNA
– The Ashanti Regional Police Command has begun an exercise to clamp down on
reckless driving which was causing a lot of accidents in the region.

Assistant
Commissioner of Police (ACP) David Agyemang Adjem, the Deputy Regional Police
Commander, who announced this, said the focus of the operation this time, would
be on KIA Pregio commercial drivers, who have built extra seats in their vehicles
to carry additional passengers instead of the required number of twelve.

Briefing journalists
in Kumasi, he revealed that from January to June, this year, the region
recorded a total of 1,921 road traffic accidents.

Out of this number,
240 people lost their lives while 2,309 sustained various forms of injuries.

ACP Adjem pointed
out that statistics had revealed that the region recorded an average of 10
accidents every day, of which two people die.

He said the Regional
Command had christened the exercise “operation to reduce road traffic
accidents” and “operation to make passengers comfortable in public transport”.

Additionally, the
police was intensifying public education on road safety, enforcing road traffic
regulations and mounting snap checks to prevent over-speeding, wrongful
overtaking, under-aged driving, sub-standard vehicles, and unlicensed vehicles.

ACP Adjem said with
these measures in place, and with the support of the people, the Command was
confident to reduce the rate of accidents in the region.

GNA

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