NRSC acquires road safety equipment (back page)

Story: Michael Donkor
THE National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) has acquired variety of modern equipment to enhance its safety campaign on the roads.
The Gh¢60,000 (¢600 million) equipment, which included alcometers, speed guns, reflective jackets and height gauge, will be given to the police to intensify their operations to minimise road accidents.
The Director of Training and Education of the NRSC, Mrs May Obiri-Yeboah, who disclosed this in an interview with the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday, said the gesture formed part of the commission's objective to minimise road accidents during and after the Ghana 2008.
She said the equipment the police had was obsolete and inadequate, hence the commission's resolve to support them.
She noted that 50 per cent of road accidents in the country were due to speeding and said the commission was tackling that in earnest.
Mrs Obiri-Yeboah said it was in this regard that the commission decided to acquire modern equipment for the police to check speeding, overloading and other reckless driver behaviour on the road.
Mrs Obiri-Yeboah said in addition to this, the commission had also mounted radio and television programmes to educate both pedestrians and drivers on safety on the road.
She said leaflets which contained tit bits on road safety were being distributed.
She observed that during the tournament, enthusiastic spectators would travel from one place to another to watch the football match and appealed to motorists to drive with care.
She said their respective teams would need them alive to cheer them on.
Mrs Obiri-Yeboah also appealed to riders of motorbikes to endeavour to use helmets and desist from rough riding on the road.
She appealed to drivers to switch on their headlights whenever the weather was foggy for clearer visibility and reduce their speed to avoid crushing into other vehicles on the road.