By Benjamin Asomah
Berekum, (Bono), Nov. 12, GNA-The Bono Regional Command of the Police Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) in collaboration with some road sector agencies has sensitized commercial drivers in the Berekum Municipality of the region on Traffitech-GH.
The Traffitech-GH is a newly introduced automated traffic enforcement system being implemented in the country to bring sanity on the highways.
The Driver Vehicle and Licensing Authority (DVLA), the National Road Safety Commission and the National Insurance Commission supported the event held at the Berekum main lorry station and aimed at encouraging the drivers to obey road traffic regulations to curb crashes.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) on the sidelines of the sensitization exercise at Berekum, Chief Inspector Thomas Akelah, the Public Relations Officer of the Bono Regional police administration said the TraffiTech-GH was introduced to control crashes and needles fatalities on the highways.
He said the system used automated cameras and sensors to capture traffic violations, saying that the system would significantly reduce human interferences and thereby improve road safety, saying that the TraffiTech-GH covered 42 traffic offenses.
He cautioned the drivers to obey road traffic regulations, saying that offenders would be prosecuted.
C/Insp Akelah said the region recorded 58 deaths in 192 road crashes in 2025, saying that between January and September 2026 alone the region had recorded 50 deaths through 114 road crashes.
He said excessive speeding, wrongful overtaking, disregard of road signs and driver errors were the major factors that contributed to the crashes.
Mr Sylvester Kwadwo Asare, the Regional Planning Manager of the NRSA urged vehicle buyers to effect change of ownership to prevent original owners from receiving violation notices for offenses.
The Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Vida Agyeiwaa, the Berekum Municipal MTTD Commander, motorcycle and tricycle riders to secure valid licenses and register their machines.
She noted that owners of some seized unregistered motorbikes remained unclaimed at the police station and asked the owners to go for their bikes or the machines would be auctioned.
ASP Agyeiwaa said the MTTD would soon undertake road traffic enforcement exercises in the municipality.
Nana Amankona, the Berekum Branch Chairman of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) commended the organisers for the event and called for intensified driver education on the Traffitech.
He also called on the road sector agencies to repaint faded road markings in the area and replace broken traffic signs.
GNA
Edited by Dennis Peprah/Kenneth Odeng Adade
Reporter: Benjamin Asomah