Ghana’s National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) will roll out traffic tech, it’s technology-driven road traffic enforcement initiative by the end of the second quarter of 2024.
Details
The automated speed limit enforcement programme will be operationalised using cameras that have been mounted at vantage points on the country’s roads and highways.
How It Would Work
NRSA is currently undertaking going a sensitisation and awareness program for drivers to adhere strictly to speed limits before the traffic tech initiative was rolled out.
Drivers who drive past the limit would be required to pay a fine. Inability to pay the fine will result in stiffer sanctions.
The technology for the speed limits include mounted cameras ahead of the operation area to capture the speed of drivers 200 meters away.
The cameras capture the number plates, and speed at which they were travelling, as well as drivers without seat belts fastened.
The camera information would be relayed to the NRSA and police officers who then stop the drivers to either sensitise them to the implications of their behaviours or process them for court in extreme cases.
By The Numbers
According to the NRSA, speeding accounted for 60% of road crashes in Ghana. The authority also claimed that although there were speed limits posted in various zones, 70% of drivers flout the speed limits.
Zoom Out
This is not the first time that the NRSA has tried to implement a speed limit project. In 2011, the Ministry of Roads embarked on a project to install speed limiters.
In 2012, the NRSA had attempted to install speed cameras on the highways to capture drivers who were overspeeding.
The last time the NRSA attempted a speed technology project, it tried to launch one in 2017.
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