Deaths from Road traffic crashes have now reached 771 persons in 3 months, surpassing the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020.
The Motor Traffic & Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service gave this shocking revelation.
This essentially means more people have died due to road crashes in the period than the number of lives cumulatively claimed by the novel coronavirus since the first two COVID-19 cases back in March 2020.
As of the April 3, 2021, the Ghana Health Service put the mortality rate of the virus at 752 whiles the latest figures from the MTTD paint a gloomy picture of the gravitating impact of road traffic accidents within the first quarter of 2021, surpassing the death toll from Covid-19 so far.
This is very disheartening!
Looking at this chilling revelation, government must equally treat road transport crashes as a national safety crisis, just like how it is treating COVID-19 as a national health crisis.
Ghana needs an effective national strategy and high level commitment from the presidency to preventing road traffic crashes on our roads.