Illegal U-turn: About 40 drivers arrested on Tema Motorway
About 40 drivers were on Monday, June 17, 2019, arrested on the motorway for making illegal U-turns on the highway.
The crackdown follows Citi FM and Citi TV’s campaign, dubbed War Against Indiscipline.
The campaign since it started had charged citizens to be responsible while reporting other irresponsible drivers by filming them in a 'name and shame' approach.
The campaign also chastised the police for failing to ensure order on our roads.
Source: UGC
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In response, the Police in partnership with Citi TV and Citi FM embarked on an operation to arrest drivers caught using illegal U-turns.
“We try to use this route, even though it is unapproved to avoid paying tolls,” one driver said.
In October 2018, Daily Graphic reported the alarming presence of many unauthorised U-turns along the Pokuase-Nsawam dual carriageway.
This road which is part of the Accra-Kumasi highway, has triggered indiscipline on the busy highway and compromised the safety of road users
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On a daily basis, drivers of private and commercial vehicles, especially trotros, taxis and articulated trucks, use the illegal U-turns to avoid heavy traffic that mounts on the highway.
According to Daily Graphic reports, certain portions of the Accra-Kumasi highway, have no less than 74 illegal U-turns between Pokuase and the Nsawam bypass, in spite of the fact that there were 10 authorised U-turns on the same stretch.
There are 63 unauthorised U-turns from the end of the ongoing construction works on the $84-million three-tier, two-kilometre Pokuase Interchange project through Amasaman, Agbono Number 1 to Medie and Dobro, while 63 of such illegal access routes have been created between Dobro and the Adoagyiri-end of the Nsawam bypass.
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Source: YEN.com.gh
