When will sanity prevail on our roads?

This hot afternoon, Sunday February 28 2010, I came across this truck on the Tech-Adum stretch of the Kumasi-Accra road. Certainly I do not know where it’s coming from and heading to, but the threat of this vehicle to human life and property I surely could imagine. Pedestrians and other motorists looked on in awe as the truck wobbled along and road and attempted negotiating sharp curves. All I could ask myself was ‘FOR HOW LONG?’
Road safety campaigners estimate road accidents, resulting in loss of human lives and injuries, cost the nation some 165 million US dollars annually, representing 1.6 percent of Ghana’s Gross Domestic Product

Surely, the nation must think through pragmatic measures to sanitize the roads but barring truck-loads like this from plying our roads do not require any brainstorming. Some persons in authority must be made to ACT and act NOW!