[ 2017-03-02 ]

The scene of the accident on the Kwame Nkrumah flyover

Circle accident: Stubborn drivers to blame – Roland Walker
Recalcitrant drivers are to blame for
Wednesday’s accident on the Kwame Nkrumah
flyover, Roland Walker, Public Relations Officer
for Road Safety Services Management, has said.

According to him, inasmuch as some of the drivers
lack understanding of roads signs, others
deliberately violate road regulations, resulting
in such accidents.

The accident on March 1 saw a trailer loaded with
sugar toppling over the flyover on the Ring Road
to Kaneshie stretch of the Kwame Nkrumah Circle
interchange.

The freight on the trailer fell on the railing of
the flyover while its head dropped onto the
ground, destroying some vehicles in the process.

Speaking in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson,
host of Ghana Yensom, on Accra100.5FM on Thursday
2 March, Mr Walker said: “There are road
demarcations the world all over and those signs
communicate to the drivers what to do and what not
to do, but it appears that in our part of the
world the drivers do not understand the road
signs. Others also understand the signs but would
just not obey the signs.

“If you look at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle
interchange, for example, there are several road
signs on it, even where the accident happened
there were roads signs there. You would see a sign
indicating 4.5m height, meaning that if you are
driving a truck more than 4.5m high, you cannot
use that road, but the drivers have become
stubborn and do not obey these instructions.

“How can you drive a loaded 40-footer container
through that area knowing very well that such cars
should not use that road? I think the enforcers of
road regulations should be up and doing in
stopping these drivers from disobeying the road
regulations.”

Source - classfmonline.com

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