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Road accidents remain the bane of Ghana's economy as day in, day out there are reports of car crashes resulting in numerous deaths and injuries.

A lot of the accidents are attributed to recklessness and misbehaviour of drivers, overspeeding, unnecessary overtaking and other factors.

The road accident statitics is very scary as thousands are reported dead each month.

According to a data provided by the Center for Transport Security Dialogue and read on Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo' by host Kwami Sefa Kayi, Ghana has, from January to October this year, recorded 2,380 fatal road accidents.

That exceeds the number of Coronavirus deaths since its outbreak in Ghana, making road accidents a great danger to Ghanaians.

Twelve thousand, eight hundred and ninety (12,890) people are said to have sustained serious injuries from road accidents and 13,244 cases of car crashes have been recorded, all in ten (10) months.

As part of measures to raise awareness about road safety, there are calls on road users to take all the precautions to avert accidents on the roads.