According to a report from the Ghana Police Service’s Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) for July 2023, the number of traffic accidents rose by 4.31 percent.
For the same time period, there was a 30.07 percent rise in fatalities from traffic accidents.
In 2023, there were 1,233 accidents involving 2,099 vehicles, 186 fatalities, and 1328 injuries.
Reports of crashes, cars involved, fatalities, and injuries, respectively, climbed by 4.31%, 5.42%, 30.07%, and 8.76%.
1,182 collisions involving 1,991 vehicles were reported for the same period in 2022, with 143 fatalities and 1221 injuries.
In July 2023 compared to July 2022, there were 213 fewer pedestrian knockdowns.
Additionally, from January to July 2023, there were 8,137 reported road traffic collisions.
10,407 casualties (1,272 fatalities/deaths and 9,135 injuries) were sustained in these collisions involving 13,862 vehicles of various types (private, commercial, motorcycles/cycles, etc.).
East, Ahafo, Upper West, Volta, Central, Eastern, Bono, Western North, and Ashanti regions by 300%, 180%, 150%, 122.2%, 88.4%, 33.3%, 29.9%, 15.4%, 5.6%, and 3.5%, respectively. The remaining regions had decreases over the same time period, with Savannah Region experiencing the biggest percentage decrease of 90%, while the North East region experienced no change.
