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80% of night accidents happen on roads without street lights

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  • KWAA 8 years ago

    The lights may be a factor,but the major cause of roads accidents are due to indiscipline.Most Drivers in Ghana drive too offensive,drank and have no respect for life.And our law enforcement officers are too corrupt to enforc ...
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  • DVLA Observer 8 years ago

    I have observed that a greater percentage of accidents at night is caused by poor headlight adjustment If the MTTU Police will critically check headlights, it will reduce the rate of accidents at night

  • ROGUE LAWYER 8 years ago

    your observations are not correct, because if the roads are properly managed you dont Need the headlight when driving.
    The headlights were made for those who are running from 120km/h-200km/h
    #and in Ghana due to the nature ...
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  • Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi must go! 8 years ago

    Only a primitive, monkey society will rely on stats to government them this piece of information

  • DR TRUTH 8 years ago

    ONLY 10% OF GHANA ROADS HAVE STREETS LIGHTS. 90% SO IF 20% OF ACCIDENTS HAPPEN ON THESE 10% STREET LIGHT ROADS THEN THE ANALOGY IS FLAWED

  • ROGUE LAWYER 8 years ago

    let us put presure on the government to do her part to reduce accidents by 80% , then we take on the recacitrant Drivers from there.
    As it stands now mostly about 90% of road accidents in the country is due to the poor ...
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  • Pimpinese 8 years ago

    What's the total percent of trunk road junctions in Ghana without street lights. While one would intuitively expect fewer nocturnal accidents on lit-up sections of roadways, If these sections constitute only 5% of the roads, ...
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  • Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi must go! 8 years ago

    In western nations, tax revenue and monies accrued from sale of resources, investments etc are used for such projects. In ghana, such monies find their ways into the pockets and foreign accounts of these faggot politicians an ...
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  • Close Observer 8 years ago

    OUR ROADS SHOULD HAVE STREET LIGHTS AS WELL AS PROPER REFLECTIVE ROAD MARKINGS. REFLECTIVE WHITE ROAD MARKINGS ARE A LIFE SAVER. If it is foggy at night and you can't see ahead of you well, the reflective white road markings ...
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  • abba 8 years ago

    We have sun 24/7 yet when it comes to lighting our streets we only think of hydroelectricity

  • abba 8 years ago

    Where are the high ways authority planners. We have such people in our system making a living on taxpayers earning but service delivery is shoddy. Surely these people must know Accident prone spot in the country that they sho ...
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  • Kwesi Baidoo 8 years ago

    Mahama do something about DUMSOR.Why don't you have an idea as to. how to solve this

  • ROGUE LAWYER 8 years ago

    in any Country which want to develope , such a statistic must be taking very serious and the Problem must be solve with immediate effect.
    if the government want to really combat accident and save lifes.
    These are the typ ...
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  • Joe Turkey 8 years ago

    There are a lot of T-junctions and dead-end roads that do not have any warning signs. The Highway idiots assume that the drivers know the roads. A friend drove me from Sokode Gbogame to Bame in the Volta Region recently for a ...
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  • Klutse 8 years ago

    Teacher Mante - Nsawam portion on the K'si-Kumasi Road?