Roads in the Ashanti region remain deadliest in terms of accidents in Ghana.
According to the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA), the region had, as at the end of July 2025, recorded 25.7 percent of road fatalities, and 34.6 percent of injuries, making it the highest in the country.
From January 2020 to July 2025 (Five years and seven months), the Region alone had recorded a total of 3,131 deaths from road crashes.
The NRSA reported that 2,831 deaths occurred between January 2020 and December 2024.
From January 2025 to July 2025, a total of 441 persons has been killed in road crashes.
Again, within this period of five years and seven months, 24,409 persons have been injured in road related incidents.
Mr Kwasi Agyenim Boateng, Ashanti Regional Director of NRSA, sharing this information with some journalists at a training in Kumasi, said the situation was alarming and the Authority and relevant stakeholders were working tirelessly to reduce the number of carnages in the Region and the country at large.
The training organized by the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) in collaboration with Vital Strategies, sought to educate journalists on road safety journalism with a focus on speed management and helmet standards.
It is part of a broader project titled “Supporting Advocacy Interventions towards the Passage into Law of the Reviewed Road Traffic Act and the Development of Standards for Motorcycle Helmets”.
Mr Agyenim Boateng pointed out that poor road infrastructure, behavioural issues, and traffic errors contributed to the problem, advocating engineering solutions to address these challenges.
Mr Enock Jengre, a Programme Officer at the Legal Resource Centre (LRC), urged journalists to use their spaces to advocate for road safety issues.
He believed when wider news platforms exposed citizens, especially drivers, to the dangers of carelessness on the roads, people would be more conscious to cause a positive change in road crashes and statistics.
Ms Mavis Obeng-Mensah, Communication Officer at the Bloomberg Philanthropies Initiative for Global Road Safety (BIGRS) encouraged the media to endeavour to seek solutions to the issues surrounding road crashes and not always reporting on the problems alone.