The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) says that between January and December 2021, the country recorded a total of 15,972 road crashes resulting in injuries to 13,048 persons, while 2,924 persons lost their lives.
          The Ashanti region recorded the second highest number of 3,740 road crashes with 2,864 injuries and 606 deaths between the same periods.
       Mrs Mavis Obiri-Yeboah, Director General of NRSA who made this known in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Kumasi, mentioned abandoned faulty vehicles on the roads, indiscipline by pedestrians, roads without streetlights, and poor nature of the roads as some of the contributory factors to the road carnage.
Surely, there must be something that is not being done right, for there to be so much waste and carnage on the roads of Ghana.
Even though Mrs. Mavis Obiri Yeboah mentioned a few, we believe that the real cause of the accidents can be found in the lack of proper political leadership in this country.
It is all too clear that when it comes to raod accidents, the people who manage our country are at their wits end as to what to do, hence the carnage.
We pray for the families who lost dear ones to the carnage, we pray for the full recovery of those who were injured, and we pray for the day when Ghana would have politicians who know what they are doing.
