The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) is set to intensify leverage on technology to address the enforcement gap in road safety measures.
Pearl Adusu Sateckla, the Authority’s head, has expressed frustration over the lack of compliance, despite road safety campaigns reaching nearly 85% of the population.
“We need a stricter hand to force them to comply with all the education that we are giving them.
And I think that is where we are lacking,” she said, underscoring the need for technological enforcement tools like cameras to curb reckless driving.
Speaking on ABC MIDDAY NEWS, Sateckla stressed the importance of road traffic innovations, revealing that the NRSA plans to deploy Traffitech GH cameras to detect traffic infractions and deter dangerous behavior.
“This is making us look more deeply into technological road traffic enforcement,” she said, lamenting how preventable crashes continue to plague the roads despite intensive sensitization campaigns.
The urgency of this initiative comes in the wake of a number of tragic accidents that has claimed over seventeen lives in three days, leaving several others critically injured.
