…And Invites Them To Refresher Courses At National Drivers Academy
Mr. Amoabeng-Peprah, National Chairman of the Progressive Transport Owners Association (PROTOA) has cautioned drivers against reckless driving and asked them to help curtail the upsurge of the road accident menace, in a bid to save human resources from wasting away into nothingness.
He has therefore urged drivers to take refresher courses being organized by the National Drivers Academy with all the seriousness it deserves, in order to keep track of modern driving techniques to help ease accidents to the barest minimum.
“We cannot sit idly by for the nation to continue to lose its precious human resources through reckless road accidents. A mistake by a driver can lead to several deaths with very disastrous consequences”, he stated.
Chairman Amoabeng-Peprah noted that no driver should down-play the importance of the Driver’s Academy refresher courses, since there are a lot of new techniques in the driving industry drivers ought to abreast themselves of.
He said, plans were far advanced for refresher courses to be organized in the regions for PROTOA drivers and vowed to sanction any driver from his Association, who chooses to abstain from such courses.
He called for collaborative efforts from key players in the transport sector to help tackle the upsurge of carnage on the roads. The national chairman appealed to drivers to abstain from drugs of the destructive kind warning that, they have the tendency of destroying internal organs before walking the addict to early death.
Quoting the often over-flogged maxim, Mr. Amoabeng Peprah said “If you drink don’t drive, if you drive don’t drink” adding that when a driver is tired the sensible thing to do is to rest.
Chairman Amoabeng-Peprah also appealed to Ghanaians and religious leaders to take a keen interest on road safety issues, if the fight against reckless driving is to be won.
He said, his administration would continue to harp on the fight against reckless driving until significant strides are made to arrest the horrific levels of deaths, through accidents.
The PROTOA chairman appealed to passengers to help monitor reckless drivers whose recalcitrance quick-steps even the innocent passenger to nasty deaths rather than urge them to engage in useless over-speeding.
“I recently witnessed a sad case at Begoro in the Fanteakwa district of the Eastern region when the only child of a woman whom the family had invested so much in, was killed through somebody’s careless driving”, Chairman Amoabeng-Peprah revealed.
Rounding off, the PROTOA chairman noted that if stakeholders in the transport sector put their acts together to curb reckless driving and related accidents, the nation will rescue a significant number of its human resources from horrific levels of undeserved carnage.
