Highly interesting reportage in the the Chronicle on dangerous travelling practices of women tomato traders and their drivers.

"... Board Chairman of the National Road Safety Committee (NRSC), has blamed the continuing spate of road accidents on sneaky policemen who rather than punish recklessness, collect monies from erring drivers and let them go." [more]

The Ghanaian Chronicle on "Stationary vehicles and fatalities on our roads"

Lengthy article in the Accra Mail : "Ghana needs to enforce the laws rigorously"

And a comment on the 'carnage on our roads'

Ghanaian Chronicle (23.03.06): "This is a serious national crisis because [of] road traffic accidents"

in Public Agenda (27.03.06)

Operators of commercial vehicles raise transport fares (20.02.2006)

A different perspective on road safety in Ghana:
The Ghanaian Chronicle* (07.02.2006) has investigated into the 'highway robbery' of some policemen on drivers in the country's north. Not happy about the exposure of police bribe-taking, an officer threatened the Chronicle editor afterwards. The initial and revealing article has been taken off the Chronicle website...
The story's follow-up here (01.03.06)

... a Traffic Police commander warns trotro and taxi drivers in Madina when briefing them on "the fight to reduce accidents on our roads" (Public Agenda, 06-01-30).

Besides, a station officer "warned drivers who do not dress well, especially those who wear shabby dresses and ‘sleepers’ to desist from the habit or else they would be punished for failing to portray a good image of the driving profession" (ironic emphasis added!).
K: safety, MTTU, transport