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Senior Manager of the National Road Safety Authority, Henry Asomani has assured road users of regulating \u2018express\u2019 commercial vehicles on major highways in the country.<\/p>\n
This he said is a part of the road safety precautionary measures to drastically reduce road deaths in the country.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Roselyn Felli on Prime Morning, he stated that the NRSA has partnered with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) to ensure all commercial vehicles \u2018express\u2019 and Ghana Private Road <\/strong><\/em>Transport Union (GPRTU) adhere to the road safety precautionary measures.<\/p>\n \u201cAs part of regulations, NRSA will ensure that commercial vehicles GPRTU who plan journeys more than 50km should have speed limits in their vehicles and that\u2019s something the authority in collaboration with the DVLA has come to realize,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n The significant reduction in road crashes within the first half of 2022 in the country has reduced the number of road deaths from 1,706 people in 2021 to 1,433 in 2022, a decline of 15.4% involving 15,239 vehicles.<\/p>\n Speaking on the show, Mr. Asomani believes the reduction is a result of the intensity of road safety campaigns by the media, the police and other organizations.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we all with the media came together to begin the \u2018Arrive Alive\u2019 campaign about 3 years ago is one of the things that has significantly brought this results today. Then also, we all know about some of the operations that the police is enforcing which have also brought us this far,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mr. Asomani entreated road users to maintain the road safety precautionary measures been put in place by the police and newly constructed roads as the \u2018Stay Alive\u2019 campaign is still in progress by the authority and the media.<\/p>\n Meanwhile the Head of Communications at GPRTU, Abass Ibrahim Moro revealed that the union in collaboration with the NRSA is to introduce an initiative in October which will support and help curb road crashes in the country.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve also come together to combine our resources from October. We\u2019re also introducing compulsory tolling. We\u2019ve got in touch with the NRSA who has also partnered us. We\u2019ve engaged the services of service provider on the road,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senior Manager of the National Road Safety Authority, Henry Asomani has assured road users of regulating \u2018express\u2019 commercial vehicles on major highways in the country. This he said is a part of the road safety precautionary measures to drastically reduce road deaths in the country. Speaking to Roselyn Felli on Prime Morning, he stated that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1179106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[558,2310,23511,4854,4933],"class_list":["post-1179102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-commercial","tag-express","tag-nrsa","tag-regulate","tag-vehicles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}