The National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) is beginning a nationwide towing programme next month to ensure that all vehicles that breakdown on highways are cleared off the roads.<\/p>\n
To enjoy this service, drivers will be required to pay a road safety fee ranging between GHC 10 and GHC 100 in addition to their road worthy certification fees.<\/p>\n
The Head of Communications at the NRSC, Kwame Kodua Atuahene, explained that the move is geared towards reducing the risk of road users running into stationary vehicles; a trend which is responsible for over 20% of all road accidents in the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cRightly as you put it, if you look at the data, close to 21 percent of fatal crashes are somehow connected with these obstacles and so we need to find a means to deal with these concerns,\u201d he told Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Umaru Sanda Amadu on Eyewitness News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Giving more reasons to justify the Commission\u2019s decision, Mr. Atuahene explained that, \u201cthe law makes specific recommendations for vehicle owners to pay a mandatory road safety fee for the purposes of managing obstacles that they are confronted with.\u201d<\/p>\n The programme is a Public Private Partnership (PPP) project involving the Road Safety Commission, the Police and the DVLA . These entities will be working with other private companies to provide the service.<\/p>\n Details of fees to be charged are listed below: <\/strong><\/p>\n An owner of a motorbike will pay GHC 10 for the whole year<\/p>\n Non commercial cars will pay GHC 20 for the whole year<\/p>\n Taxis will pay GHC 40 in two installments as they pay their road worthy fees twice a year<\/p>\n Mini commercial buses will be required to pay GHC40 twice a year, totaling 80 cedis, while renewing their road worthy certificate.<\/p>\n Trucks will pay between GHC 40 and GHC 100 twice a year, based on their tonnage, while renewing their road worthy certificate.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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