Ghana Police Service in collaboration with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority in Tamale have impounded over 300 motor cycles.
The joint operation was targeted at those riding without registered number plates and crash helmets.
Ghana has recorded over 2,000 crashes involving motorcycles in the first quarter of the year 2021.
This is according to the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA).
Director-General of the National Road Safety Authority, Ing. May Obiri-Yeboah said: “From January to April 2021, 2,184 crashes were recorded involving motorcycles. For commercial vehicles, we had 3, 341, and then 3, 811 for private vehicles.”
It had emerged early on that road crashes have killed more than 1,000 people in the country from January to April 2021.
Last year, 2,500 people died from road crashes, adding that the figure is the highest since 1991.
Over 1,000 motorcycle and tricycle crashes since January, and attributed the uncontrolled crashes to speeding and careless driving.
The Authority had forwarded a draft Legislative Instrument (LI) to the Attorney General for onward delivery to Parliament for consideration, explaining that the passage of the LI would push the implementation of the NRSA Act 2019, Act 993, which assigns a regulatory role to the Authority.
The Northern Regional Police Commander COP Timothy Yoosa Bonga says his outfit will continue to embark on the exercise until residents comply with road safety regulations.
