AS part of efforts to curb road accidents in the Tamale metropolis, the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) in the Northern Region has organised a road safety walk in the metropolis.
Dubbed ‘Walk for Health Stay with Cowbell’, the walk was part of the new strategies adopted by the NRSC to sensitise residents to the need to ensure road safety measures.
A cross-section of the public took part in the walk that included keep fit exercises held at the Jubilee Park.
Speaking to the participants, the Regional Manager of the NRSC for the Northern and Upper East regions, Mr Thomas Boakye, stated that the walk would be organised every month.
He said that research had shown that where “enforcement of road traffic regulations failed, motivation must be adopted to encourage motorists to ensure road safety measures”.
He announced that next month had been declared a road safety month, adding that a “cycling month” would also be put in place as a way of educating the public on road traffic regulations.
He further explained that those who wore their crash helmets regularly would be identified and rewarded as a way of motivating residents to adhere to road safety measures.
“Safety consciousness is an individual affair and I must warn that if you mess up yourself and die through your own carelessness on the road, even God himself would not forgive you” the manager cautioned.
An educator at the NRSC in the region, Mr Baba Musah, noted that every road user should be concerned about the lives of other road users including pedestrians in order to reduce accidents to the barest minimum.
Last month 26 people died in a road accident at Zagyuri, near Kamina, when the cargo truck on which they were travelling from Zoggu in the Savelugu-Nanton District to Tamale veered off the road in an attempt to overtake a tipper truck and plunged into a gutter killing the passengers on the bus.
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