In spite of continued education and attempts to create safer roads for the motoring public, the nation continues to witness many heart-breaking incidents of accidents on our roads, with its attendant deaths and injuries!
Over the past ten days, Ghana has witnessed great carnage on the roads, leading to the deaths of dozens of people. All of them were killed in various accidents.
The distressing aspect of what is happening is that over the years, many people and institutions have done the best that they can to ensure that our roads are safe. In spite of these efforts, however, it would seem that our poor roads, old vehicles and poorly trained and generally reckless drivers have all contrived to turn our roads into killing fields.
A journey on any of our roads, including transport in town, have become fraught with danger, and for all of us, there is no guarantee that a trip on our roads would end up with us arriving back home, or at our destinations.
For reasons that are hard to define, the advent of Christmas every year has led to increases in the number of road accidents, and this year is proving to be no exception. Whilst the Ghana Road Safety Commission, the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit and other affected organs have been doing their best to ensure that there is security and safety on our roads, it is in this light that we at the Daily searchlight once again renew our appeal to all, particularly to the motoring public, to exercise great care and circumspection on our highways. There is too much bloodshed on our roads, and until and unless all of us make a clear commitment to bring the needless bloodshed to an end, we would continue to witness the unnecessary carnage!
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