POLICE MUST INTENSIFY ENFORCEMENT OF MOTORCYCLE RELATED PROTOCOLS

published: Nov. 14, 2022, 12:26 p.m.

date: Oct. 3, 2022

POLICE MUST INTENSIFY ENFORCEMENT OF MOTORCYCLE RELATED PROTOCOLS

The National Road Safety Authority has observed a recent upsurge in the enforcement of motorcycle and tricycle-related road traffic regulations within the Greater Accra region by the Police's Motor Traffic and Transport Department.

The Authority is particularly encouraged by the commitment of the Inspector General of Police (Dr.) George Akuffo Dampare and the Director-General of the MTTD DCOP Francis Aboagye Nyarko to road safety. The two officers have brought some freshness to the enforcement of road traffic regulations in the region and deserve some commendation. In 2020, while Greater Accra accounts for 4,795 approximately 38.41% of all crashes and 129 representing 15.6% of motorcycle/tricycle related fatalities, we wish to call on the Police to sustain the emerging positive sub-culture of traffic enforcement and extend the same to all parts of the country.

Between January and August this year, motorcycle-related deaths account for nearly 43% of all fatalities, with the Greater Accra, Ashanti, Eastern and Central regions accounting for 56.3% of all motorcycle-related deaths during the period. These deaths are traceable to the failure of motor riders and the pillions to obey basic safety protocols and regulations

Regulation 84 and 178 of the Road Traffic Regulation 2012 L.1. 2180 provides for the compulsory wearing of protective clothing, including a protective helmet by motor riders and pillion riders and obedience to an official traffic control device's instruction, including traffic signals, respectively.

Failure to comply with these regulations constitute an offence that attracts on summary conviction, a fine of not less than twenty-five (25) penalty units and not more than fifty penalty units or a term of imprisonment of not more than three months for Regulation 84 and thirty days for Regulation 178 or both (fines and a term in prison).

We wish to call on the public to support the Police to keep enforcement activity on the ascendancy.

Further, the public is advised to desist from impeding enforcement actions through all manner of interferences and interventions. The road traffic offender who escapes reprimand for your intervention today may be responsible for your exposure to road traffic crashes experience

tomorrow.

Let us resolve to work together to make our roads safe.

For further details, kindly contact the under listed numbers;

024 4040615 / 050 1319079