Taming road vampires: Vehicle towing policy takes off Jan. 2027

Effective January, next year, the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) will start a compulsory vehicle towing policy to expeditiously remove breakdown vehicles that continue to devour lives on the country’s roads.

The driver of a 207 mini-bus, Emmanuel Arko, who plies the Accra-Cape Coast road, said if the policy was properly implemented, it would help to address the worrying phenomenon of breakdown vehicles on the road.

Checks by the Daily Graphic at some sections of the 696-kilometre Eastern Corridor Road that stretches from Tema in the Greater Accra Region through the Eastern, Volta, Oti and the Upper East regions indicate that a lot of vehicles, many of them trucks, are either left on the shoulders or in the middle of the road.