{"id":108686,"date":"2015-04-15T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=108686"},"modified":"2015-04-15T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T15:06:15","slug":"accidents-kill-40-in-ashanti-in-three-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=108686","title":{"rendered":"Accidents kill 40 in Ashanti in three months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Deaths through car crashes continue to rise in the Ashanti Region, despite intensive safety campaign, resulting in the death of 40 people during the first three months of the year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;rfEV1GPNYZfVJcrlaek4FfDrmYhX44iO&#8221;]Thomas Bismark Boakye, Regional Manager of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), said 28 of those killed were men, while 12 were women.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that some of the fatalities could have been prevented, if drivers observed traffic rules and regulations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He appealed to road users to heed calls to be more careful on the road, by avoiding recklessness, driving under the influence of alcohol, and speeding, to save lives.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Boakye said it was important for everybody to put premium on safety to make the roads safe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He encouraged travelers to be bold to report to the police drivers who showed complete disregard for the road traffic laws.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said all should take responsibility and join the campaign to help reduce car crashes in order to save the lives of innocent people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deaths through car crashes continue to rise in the Ashanti Region, despite intensive safety campaign, resulting in the death of 40 people during the first three months of the year. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;rfEV1GPNYZfVJcrlaek4FfDrmYhX44iO&#8221;]Thomas Bismark Boakye, Regional Manager of the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), said 28 of those killed were men, while 12 were women. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":25241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,17,61],"class_list":["post-108686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong","tag-yendi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}