Analysis of road crashes revealed that more than 95 per cent of them occur as a direct result of traffic offenses, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), Mr Rudolph Beckley, has said.
He said this at a seminar on the Road Traffic Regulations 2012, LI 2180 and the introduction of the new Electronic Roadworthiness Certificate, held at the Police Public Safety Training School at Pwalugu.
The Seminar was attended by personnel of the Police Motor Traffic and Transport Unit Department (MTTD), the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) and transport operators.
Mr Beckley said Personnel of the MTTD, who are the frontiers of the enforcement of the provisions of the Road Traffic Regulations 2012, LI 2180, had not much knowledge of it and therefore found it difficult to enforce them.
He said it was against that background that his outfit in collaboration with the Police MTTD and National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) decided to organize the two-day seminar.
?Saving lives on our roads apparently involve the active participation of various stakeholders, critical amongst them are the police service, NRSC and the DVLA .It is through the fruitful collaboration of these active participants that we can see results?, he said.
The Upper East Deputy Regional Minister, Mr Daniel Syme, expressed the hope that with the introduction of the electronic worthiness certificate which is to be issued by the DVLA, vehicles which were found not to be road worthy would be taken off the road.
The Deputy Commissioner of Police Angwubutoge Awuni , said the seminar would be held in all the 10 regions of the country.
GNA
