Some 1,700 vehicles were involved in road crashes in January this year. Out of the number, 723 were commercial vehicles, 715 private vehicles and 336 motorcycles. In January 2017, 1,440 crashes were recorded. At a news conference in Accra last Tuesday, the Executive Director of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), Mrs May Obiri-Yeboah, said 1,774 vehicle crashes claimed 65 lives and resulted in the knockdown of 253 pedestrians. The commission, she said, considered the trend of road crashes as unacceptable, especially occurring just after the Christmas and New Year festivities when the NRSC scaled up public education on road safety. Contributory factors Mrs Obiri-Yeboah said preliminary investigations conducted by the NRSC had established that negligence and disregard for road traffic regulations on the part of drivers were mostly responsible for the road crashes. She said deficiencies associated with road infrastructure were also a contributory factor to the crashes. “Th...