The Higher West Regional workplace of the Nationwide Highway Security Authority (NRSA) says from January to August 2022, 67 highway crushes with 25 deaths and 51 accidents, involving tricycles, had been recorded within the area.
Wrongful overtaking, use of unapproved lamps, overloading, non-observance of highway indicators, and drunk- driving had been among the frequent causes of the accidents.
It has, subsequently, intensified sensitization on security on the roads forward of the yuletide as a part of measures to stop accidents that normally characterised the Christmas festivities.
Mr. Abdul Fatwu Sidik of the Regional Workplace, NRSA, urged the Tricycle (Cambuu) Operators Affiliation to look at the security rules and highway indicators to avert the rampant crashes recorded within the area.
The sensitization programme was collectively organized by the NRSA, the Nationwide Insurance coverage Fee, the Motor Transport and Visitors Division (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, and the Driver and Automobile Licensing Authority (DVLA).
Different stakeholders included the Narcotics Management Fee, Meals and Medication Authority, Wa Municipal Meeting, and conventional authorities.
The programme was, amongst different issues, to have interaction the tricycle operators to make sure sanity and keep away from carnages on the highway earlier than, throughout, and after the yuletide.
Mr. Sidik stated: “We’ve intensified our highway security academic actions on blackspot roads within the area. We’re additionally collaborating with the MTTD and DVLA to clamp down on using unapproved lamps and collaborating with the Wa Municipal Meeting to clamp down on unauthorized stations and wrongful parking”.
The Authority was additionally participating the normal authorities within the area to accentuate adherence to highway security rules.
Mr. Frederick Boakye-Yiadom, the Higher West Regional Assistant Supervisor of, the Nationwide Insurance coverage Fee, urged the Cambuu house owners and operators to make sure they assist defend the lives of passengers and different highway customers.
He stated third-party motor insurance coverage was obligatory by legislation in Ghana and refusal by the house owners and operators to make sure their tricycles was in opposition to the legislation.
“In Ghana, there are some insurances which might be obligatory and one in every of them is third-party motor insurance coverage,” he stated.
“Motor insurance coverage for third-party isn’t just to guard pedestrians or passengers however to additionally defend the proprietor or driver of the automobile from third-party liabilities when it includes in an accident reminiscent of bodily damage and loss of life”.
Mr. Boakye-Yiadom defined {that a} proportion of all motor insurance coverage premiums went to the Motor Compensation Fund established by the NIC to compensate individuals who suffered accidents.
It additionally helps the dependents of individuals who die in a motor accident and are unable to acquire compensation from an insurance coverage firm as a result of their motors had been both not insured or their insurance coverage expired.
On claims cost, Mr. Boakye-Yiadom allayed the fears of the tricycle operators and stated the insurance coverage corporations paid real claims.
He defined that the one case through which insurance coverage corporations “don’t pay claims is when the motive force of the automobile doesn’t have insurance coverage, a legitimate license, or the automobile’s road-worthy certificates is expired.”
He urged members who might expertise undue delays in claims processing to report back to the NIC for redress.
