Road Safety: GPRTU to install speed limit devices on commercial vehicles

The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has vowed to install speed limiters in commercial vehicles.

The move is geared towards controlling the speed of commercial vehicles to ensure that no commercial driver can go beyond a particular speed limit approved by the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA).

General Secretary of GPRTU, Godfred Abulbire, announced this at the launch of 2023 Road Safety Christmas Campaign dubbed: “Stop Speeding, Stay Alive” in Accra.

He maintained that leadership of GPRTU has done enough education to get drivers change their attitudes on the road but to no avail, hence the move to compulsorily install speed limiters in commercial vehicles to curtail over speeding.

“Behavioral change is a very hard thing for us to get the drivers to comply with, you would say all the beautiful words, teach and talk to them but they move on the road and remain who they are, so we think that something extra has to be done”.

So the GPRTU by next week is going to compulsorily insert speed limiters in all cars that move within 50 kilometers, Mr. Abulbire emphasized.

He described the move by the GPRTU as the best approach to improve road safety, improve compliance and reduce unsafe driving speeds this yuletide.

Director-general of National Road Safety Authority, Ing. David Osafo Adonteng on the other hand revealed that the provisional data from the Ghana Police Service indicates 11,694 cases of road crashes have been recorded from January to October, 2023 resulting in 12,678 injuries and 1,839 deaths.

He explained that there has been a reduction in the number of crashes, injuries and the deaths by 7 percent, 3.36 percent and 7.4 percent respectively as compared to the same period last year 2022.

He thus entreated drivers and other road users to be circumspect to help minimize road crashes and mortalities this yuletide.

Story by Maxwell Otoo/ Onua FM/ 3news.com