We Killed Ebony, Our Lawlessness Killed Her

Ebony is dead. No one is happy about that. We have all gone emotional with tears forgetting that until we do things right as a people, many more avoidable accidents would continue to occur on our roads.

Reports suggest that the spot where the accident occurred has been a well-known death trap that has been worsened by the fact that an educated fellow in his right senses has decided to leave a heap of sand on such a busy road.

It beats our mind why the fellow has not been arrested yet that clear negligence was captured in the Police report on the cause of accident.

Shamefully, the heap of sand is still there and likely to cause yet another accident and kill more souls. The obvious negligence in this instance is not uncommon all across the country, even in the capital cities.

This particular accident has become topical simply because it involves a celebrity otherwise, it would have been one of the several lives that get perished through road accidents and no one bothers to check the real cause.

Truth be told, it is unfair to blame such road accidents solely on reckless driving or negligence on the part of drivers because some of our roads at best, can be described as death traps.

We all should be held culpable.

From the road contractor that decided to leave the heap of sand on the road without taking the requisite measures to ensure it does not endanger road users, to the local police chief in that area that saw the heap but also did not just care about it, to the District Chief Executive of the area, to the Ghana Highways dudes who also did not give a hoot. We all failed to do the right thing and now there is it in our face.

Shamefully, all we can do is to shed emotional tears without finding a solution to the root cause of the problem.

Almost all our inter-city roads have no streetlights and drivers continuously engage in a macabre dance each time they use such roads at night.  Not only do the roads lack lights, they also do not have road markings at all.

It has become almost very normal to find broken down heavy duty vehicles parked recklessly along our roads without the requisite signage. Sometimes such broken down vehicles remain there for days and weeks, causing all sorts of accidents that never become a topical issue because the victims are not celebrities.

Annoyingly, the common cliché on the lips of authorities has been to blame road accidents on bad driving. We beg to differ!!!

A good driver, no matter how careful, is exposed to danger when driving under such conditions.

Ebony is dead and gone. We are not sure who next would fall victim to such a danger.

It could be even you, the reader, or the writer. That is why we should speak out and ensure the right things are done.

Source: thePublisher