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Road crashes, injuries and deaths (CIDs) declined last year compared to 2022.
The latest statistics released to the Daily Graphic by the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) revealed that 2,276 persons were killed in 14,135 reported road crashes involving 23,998 vehicles.
Within the same period, 15,409 persons suffered varying degrees of injury from the crashes, while 2,559 pedestrians were also knocked down.
Compared with the 2022 figures, the current statistics showed that deaths from road crashes declined by 4.1 per cent, injuries 1.8 per cent, and crashes by 5.5 per cent.
In 2022, 2,373 people were killed in road crashes, while 15,690 were injured in 14,960 reported crashes.
The Director-General of the NRSA, David Osafo Adonteng, said the reduction in CIDs in 2023 could largely be attributed to the decline in the figures for the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Eastern regions which were the major drivers of road crashes.
He, therefore, described the 9.9 per cent, 2.2 per cent and 2.8 per cent reduction in deaths in the Greater Accra, Ashanti and Eastern regions respectively as heartwarming.
“Measures should be sustained in these strategic regions to help reduce the numbers at the national level,” Mr Adonteng said.
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