General News of Sunday, 24 March 2019Source: Graphic.com.ghAll commercial vehicles to have speed limiters to help prevent road accidents - NRSCNRSC intends to lead a conversation on the implementation of the Regulation on Speed limitersThe National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) as part of new moves to help prevent road accidents is to ensure that all commercial vehicles are fitted with speed limiters. According to the NRSC, it intends to lead a conversation on the implementation of the Regulation on Speed limiters, which requires that all commercial vehicles must be fitted with speed limiters to help manage speeds as a major contributory factor to road traffic crashes. "In recent times, we [NRSC] have been at the receiving end of some resistance for the introduction of one road safety measure or the other," she said. On Friday, March 22, an unfortunate incident of two road traffic crashes claimed more than 60 lives and injured many on the Techiman-Kintampo highway and the Accra-Cape Coast highway. Road traffic crashes have seen an upsurge of road deaths and injuries from the beginning of 2019.

Source: GhanaWeb March 24, 2019 14:03 UTC