Road collisions climbed by 4.31 per cent in July 2023, according to a study by the Ghana Police Service’s Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD).
Within the same time frame, the number of fatalities from traffic accidents climbed by 30.07 percent.
In 2023, there were 1,233 accidents involving 2,099 vehicles, 186 fatalities, and 1328 injuries.
The number of reported collisions, cars involved, fatalities, and injuries rose by 4.31%, 5.42%, 30.07%, and 8.76%, respectively.
At the same period in 2022, 1,182 crashes involving 1,991 vehicles were reported, resulting in 143 fatalities and 1221 injuries.
When compared to July 2022, pedestrian knockdowns decreased from 224 to 213 in July 2023.
Also, from January to July 2023, there were 8,137 reported road traffic collisions.
13,862 vehicles of all types (private, commercial, motorcycles/cycles, etc.) were involved in these collisions, and there were 10,407 casualties (1,272 fatalities/deaths and 9,135 injuries).
In the month of July, 54% (670) of the crashes were minor, 33% (405) were severe crashes and 13% (158) were fatal crashes out of the 1,233 crashes reported.
Similarly, out of the 8,137 road traffic crashes reported from January to July 2023, 54% (4,364) were minor crashes, 33% (2,713) were severe crashes and the remaining 13% (1,060) were fatal crashes.
Nine out of the sixteen regions also had increases in crashes.
Upper East, Ahafo, Upper West, Volta, Central, Eastern, Bono, Western North, and Ashanti regions recorded increases in Crashes by 300%, 180%, 150%, 122.2%, 88.4%, 33.3%, 29.9% 15.4%, 5.6% and 3.5% respectively in July 2023 compared to the same period of 2022. North East region recorded no change and the remaining areas recorded decreases over the same period, with the Savannah Region having the highest percentage decrease by 90%.
Generally, there have been increases in all major indicators except for Pedestrian Knockdowns for July 2023 whilst reductions were recorded in all major indicators for January to July 2023 compared with the same period in 2022.
SOURCE: Citinews