Circle accident: Stubborn drivers to blame – Roland Walker

Recalcitrant drivers are to blame for Wednesday’s accident on the Kwame Nkrumah flyover, Roland Walker, Public Relations Officer for Road Safety Services Management, has said.

According to him, inasmuch as some of the drivers lack understanding of roads signs, others deliberately violate road regulations, resulting in such accidents.

The accident on March 1 saw a trailer loaded with sugar toppling over the flyover on the Ring Road to Kaneshie stretch of the Kwame Nkrumah Circle interchange.

The freight on the trailer fell on the railing of the flyover while its head dropped onto the ground, destroying some vehicles in the process.

Speaking in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom, on Accra100.5FM on Thursday 2 March, Mr Walker said: “There are road demarcations the world all over and those signs communicate to the drivers what to do and what not to do, but it appears that in our part of the world the drivers do not understand the road signs. Others also understand the signs but would just not obey the signs.

“If you look at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle interchange, for example, there are several road signs on it, even where the accident happened there were roads signs there. You would see a sign indicating 4.5m height, meaning that if you are driving a truck more than 4.5m high, you cannot use that road, but the drivers have become stubborn and do not obey these instructions.

“How can you drive a loaded 40-footer container through that area knowing very well that such cars should not use that road? I think the enforcers of road regulations should be up and doing in stopping these drivers from disobeying the road regulations.”