NRSC extends road safety education to rural communities

The National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) in the Upper West Region has extended its road safety education campaign to school children in rural communities.

This forms part of efforts to enhance children’s safety on the road, and about 1,322 pupils and 600 students from seven selected Basic and Senior High Schools (SHSs) in Jirapa, Nandom, Wa West and Wa East Districts of the region benefited from the campaign.

Mr. Mohammed Abdul Samad, Upper West Regional Manager of the NRSC, told the Ghana News Agency in Wa on Thursday that the exercise was aimed at making pupils and students alert when using the road, to enable them to protect themselves against reckless road users.

He said the exercise was necessary because people from rural communities were mostly ignorant about road traffic regulations and were more prone to road traffic accidents.

Mr. Abdul-Samad said the district outreach programme was to educate the public on spot fines for road traffic offences which was yet to be implemented in the region.

He said resource persons from the Ghana Red Cross Society educated people on how to give first aid to accident victims before sending them, to the hospital.