Road Crashes In Upper East Region Decline
Road crashes in the Upper East Region has, from January to November this year, reduced by 84 as compared to that of last year during the same period. The Region recorded 305 road crashes with 171 persons injured and 51 deaths as against last year which recorded 389 crashes, 260 injured persons and 90 deaths. Speaking in an interview with the Ghana News in Bolgatanga, Mr Denis Yeribu, the Upper East Regional Planning Officer of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), said nine persons out of 24 pedestrians who were knocked down by vehicles died. He said about 55 per cent of the vehicles involved in the road crashes were motorbikes and 45 persons out of the 51 deaths recorded this year were men. He said if that trend continued in the region, most families would be left without breadwinners and poverty and delinquency could set in especially in the rural communities. “It is a worrying growing trend in the region, where a high number of young people above 18 years and mostly men ar...