Street Sense

A Road Safety Organisation

Street Sense, a road safety organisation

We seek to help bring sanity on our roads to reduce deaths and destruction caused by motor accident, by working along the 2ND UN DECADE OF ACTION FOR ROAD SAFETY – A BRIEF PLANNING DOCUMENT and its Framework for a Decade of Action (2021 - 2030), and along the National Road Policy of Ghana. The policies, long-term or strategic and short term action plans of the Organisation are based on the two afore-mentioned documents.

By way of advocacy and research, we seek to support and advice Government, particularly the Ministry of Transport, through the National Road Safety Commission to implement and review policy, and by way of public education and sensitization, assist the appropriate agencies to ensure enforcement of rules and regulations; specifically on the use of seat belts, alcohol and drug uses, speed management, wrong overtaking, overloading, improving the safety features of vehicles, road safety audit to ensure improvement in road construction, provision of adequate and appropriate road signs and markings, as well as linking road safety to land use and transport planning.

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Road Safety Tips

The use of the Airbag and how it works

The purpose of an airbag is to help reduce the impact of collision and to avoid and/or minimize injury. Objects and passengers in a car, if not secured will continue moving in the same direction (forward) with the same speed when the car abruptly stops or collides.

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Safe mountain driving

Driving in the mountains can be a wonderful and exhilarating experience, but it can also be tiring and cause extra wear and tear on your vehicle. When embarking on a trip through the mountains remember these ten time-tested tips to make your drive more enjoyable and safe.

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Driving safely in floods

Floods can occur anywhere. Floodwaters can rise gradually or in a flash. Flash floods are the number one weather-related killer in the world.

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Buckle up to save your life!

The purpose of the seatbelt is to hold the passenger in place so the passenger is almost part of the car. This situation prevents the passenger from flying forward and getting injured or even killed when the car stops abruptly or in the case of a collision.

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Beware at Construction zones!

Construction zones are dangerous. Remember these driving tips to avoid a sudden change in plans and perhaps save a life including your own!

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Reality of Carnage on Ghanaian Roads

The Annual Statistics

Road traffic crashes with resultant deaths, injuries and damage to property continue to assume alarming proportions in Ghana. Efforts by road safety stakeholder institutions to ameliorate the situation are not yielding the desired results and the blame has been laid at the door steps of weak enforcement of road safety regulations.

  • Victims involve
  • Total resulting deaths
  • Accident locations
  • Total number of vehicles
  • Estimated property damages
Areas and Focus

Road Safety Advocacy

As part of our efforts to help improve road safety along the United Nations Decade of Action on Road Safety, we work with various international and national stakeholders to; conduct research on pressing road safety related issues and advice government, through the National Road Safety Commission on national road safety policy directions and initiatives; educate all road users - motorists passengers and pedestrians to know their rights and responsibilities; increase awareness on rules and regulations governing the use of roads; educate road users on prohibitive, informative and directional signs; assist vulnerable accident victims to recuperate; assist the Ghana Highway Authority to redeploy and install road signs and markings and fix defective ones; encourage and promote tree growing along roads; and promote volunteerism in all matters concerning road safety and sanity.

Policy Advocacy
Sensitisation & Education
Partnerships
Street Maintenance & Cleanups

Partnerships

We work with collaborators on the United Nations Decade of Action on Road Safety and the National Policy on Road Safety in the areas of:
  • Policy and law formulation, review and implementation.
  • Enforcement of rules for prevention and mitigation of road accidents.
  • Communication with (information, awareness creation, and education to) perpetrators of road accidents.
  • Post-crash care or emergency issues.

Oswald Lavoe

Founder of Street Sense Organisation

Road accidents remain a serious challenge in Ghana, despite ongoing road safety sensitization and education. Road accidents are occurring at alarming rates, killing and injuring thousands of people each year. When you compare the rate of deaths by road accidents to disease pandemics, you realize that deaths by road accidents lead.

Street Sense Organisation

Ring Road Central
Kwame Nkrumah Circle, Accra
080 011 1019
030 222 4760

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