In an effort to combat traffic accidents, the Presiding Bishop of The Methodist Church in Ghana has given the Accident Victims Support Foundation GHC10,000.
Adding his voice to the plea of the foundation, Rev. Dr. Paul Kwabena Boafo also asked drivers to exercise caution when plying the country’s roads.
The president of Accident Victims Support foundation Ghana, Rev. Cyril Crabbe, cautioned drivers to follow road safety practices in order to reduce accidents and deaths in the country.
According to him, if drivers make a concerted effort to practice safe driving habits, such as not speeding and prioritising the lives of passengers, death rates will take a nosedive during the upcoming festive season.
“Have same advice, if drivers will adhere to road safety practices it is going to help us especially this Christmas, because we already have reduction and we are looking forward that we reduce it the more… Wherever you are going, make sure you arrive alive and drive safe. That’s all we are asking our drivers to do on our roads this time, to continue to reduce the road crashes… And the passengers as well we are advising them, you don’t disturb a driver, you make sure you also don’t sleep whiles you are on board but, you join with the driver to make sure the two of you drive the car to the end.
Noise in the car could disturb the driver and it can be another trouble that will cause an accident, so we advice passengers to be noiseless”.
Speaking at the Methodist Church Ghana in Accra
Ridge, where the Accident Victims Support Foundation team paid a courtesy visit to Rev. Dr. Paul Kwabena Boafo, Rev. Crabbe also asked the church and the Methodist Church’s head to be a voice of advocacy against road accidents and to provide the necessary support to victims of various types of road crashes.
Over the years, Ghana has recorded high death rates before, during, and after the Christmas season. A comparative accident death analysis by the Ghana News Agency in 2021 revealed that more people died from road accidents from December 19 to 25, 2021, than in 2020, with the Ashanti region having the highest accident deaths.
