Road crashes reported across Ghana declined by 9.4%, the Director of Education, Research and Training at the Police Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD), ACP Alexander Kwaku Obeng.

Intensified sensitisation and caution notices issued to motorists under the TraffiTech-GH pilot project, according to ACP Alexander Kwaku Obeng, contributed to this contribution.

A total of 1,003 road crashes were recorded in September 2026, representing a decline from the 1,108 cases reported in September 2025, he said.

“Within twenty days of September this year, when we enhanced sensitisation, gathering evidence and confronting vehicle owners with it with an embedded message, with GPS, MTTD sender ID sending messages saying ‘speed kills, reduce it now’ with your vehicle number, time and place of the offence. If you compare the data of crashes from September last year (2025) with the same period this year, we have seen a significant change in behaviour of drivers,” he added.

Meanwhile, the full implementation of the automated traffic law enforcement programme, TRAFFITECH-GH, has been postponed from October 1 to November 1 to allow for “more extensive public awareness and education. This information was contained in a press statement released by the Ghana Police Service on Tuesday, September 29.

Part of the statement read, “The Ghana Police Service, through the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD), has rescheduled the full implementation of the automated traffic law enforcement programme, TRAFFITECH-GH, from 1st October to 1st November 2026.

The rescheduling is to allow for more extensive public awareness and education on the programme, including its operations, the traffic offences to be detected, and the Electronic Notices of Violation (ENV) to be issued to offending motorists.

It added, “TRAFFITECH-GH forms part of efforts by the Service to address indiscipline on Ghana's roads and improve compliance with road traffic laws and regulations.

The Ghana Police Service, therefore, urges motorists, drivers and vehicle owners to take advantage of the additional period to familiarise themselves with the programme ahead of the roll out.

The programme has been designed to assist the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) to detect traffic offences on the country’s roads through cameras and Personal Data Assistant (PDA) devices.

Vehicle owners or drivers will be auctioned after their offences are reviewed by the Electronic Notices of Violation (ENV). The system forms part of the National Road Safety Authority’s efforts to curb vehicular accidents and road traffic offences.

According to the Director of Education, Research and Training at the MTTD, ACP Alexander Kwaku Obeng, the introduction of a technology-driven traffic enforcement system, TraffiTech-GH, will not replace police presence on the roads.

Addressing the media on Wednesday, August 26, ACP Obeng, disclosed that the system has rather been designed to assist the police. He added that, “It doesn't necessarily mean that police physical presence will not be there."

“Visibility will be there, first of all, even in the case that there are certain instances that we need police to be controlling the traffic”.

Meanwhile, the NRSA has warned that abandoned vehicles on roads that are not promptly towed will be auctioned by the government.

As part of the initiative, vehicle owners will be required to subscribe to a towing service or obtain an insurance policy that includes towing cover.

According to the NRSA, owners will receive even days’ notice before the auction after a vehicle has been abandoned for 21 days.

Addressing the media, the Director of Registration, Inspection and Compliance at the NRSA, Kwame Koduah Attuahene, noted that the upcoming system would not exclude motorists, adding that vehicles must be towed immediately.

“The law is that every vehicle owner will be required to subscribe to a towing service company or buy an insurance policy that has a towing service tied to it. Once your vehicle breaks down, the law now requires that you immediately have it towed. In the old law, it gave you a 30-minute or one-hour grace period, but now the law is that as soon as you break down, you must have your vehicle towed.

“Once your vehicle breaks down, the law now requires that you immediately have it towed. In the old law, it gave you a 30-minute or one-hour grace period, but now the law is that as soon as you break down, you must have your vehicle towed.

“After 21 days, you will be auctioned. You have seven days’ notice before the sale. And where the sale is unsuccessful, the state will confiscate the vehicle and possibly scrap it,” he said.Mr Attuahene made the comments while speaking at a national sensitisation programme on the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act, 2025 (Act 1153) and the Road Traffic Regulations, 2026 (L.I. 2519).