The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA), has credited a large portion of the street crashes being kept in the nation to "driver weariness".
The Authority says accessible information shows that numerous drivers are drained at a point however decline to have a rest which then brings about mishaps.
As per the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA), an accident that happened at Abofuor close to Offinso in 2021 that prompted the deficiency of a few lives was ascribed to sluggishness.
The Authority says this and numerous other street crashes kept in the nation are because of driving while tired.
As a component of endeavors to guarantee that drivers and their vehicles are roadworthy, the NRSA in association with the Patients Friend Foundation has coordinated well-being evaluation exercises for drivers, especially the people who drive across significant distances.
The activity is to check for hypertension and eye-related conditions.
As indicated by the Ashanti Regional Director for the NRSA, Simbiat Wiredu, this exercise shapes part of endeavors to lessen street crashes.
"Exhaustion driving causes many accidents. Crashes that lead to no end. Last year, an accident occurred at Obofour and occurred around evening time and one of the causes was exhaustion from driving. So it's great for drivers to take sufficient rest and to guarantee that they are sound while setting out on an excursion. That has incited us to work together with Patients Friend Foundation, a drive from an NGO that tries to improve the prosperity of drivers," Simbiat Wiredu noted.
The Executive Director for the Patients Friend Foundation, Benjamin Mensah Ansah, says the activity has become important as certain drivers don't know about some ailments burdening them and these can prompt street crashes.
"We are zeroing in on the strength of the drivers. We have dismissed drivers for countless years concerning wellbeing. The justification for this exercise is that each driver ensures that their vehicle is roadworthy to move. Have we at any point asked ourselves, is the driver sound and qualified to drive a similar vehicle? That is ensuring that that vehicle ought to utilize out and about. So we worked together with the National Road Safety Authority, and afterward, we are doing this. We are beginning in the Ashanti Region. We will go to around six additional districts in Ghana to recognize numerous areas of wellbeing for business drivers so we assist them with tending to metropolitan street mishaps," Benjamin Mensah Ansah made sense of.
The First Trustee for Kumasi-Accra Highway Express Branch of GPRTU of TUC, Emmanuel Osei Yeboah, additionally noticed that such activities would assist the initiative of transport Unions with distinguishing drivers who are good for the streets to diminish street crashes.
"This exercise will go quite far to help a ton of drivers. At the point when dusks and a driver don't have great visual perception, there's the inclination that accidents might happen, however with this activity, we might have the option to distinguish a portion of the issues we are confronting, and afterward, we make a quick move from that point."
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