In this picture, a fully grown man knows that a driver is one careless step away from the accelerator to knock the life out of him.

Sadly, this is the exact mentality people often adopt when crossing the N1 Highway especially at the Lapaz traffic light.

Something is definitely wrong with this road and with the way people cross it.

We need to correct both.

As a pedestrian, when the light is not green for you just don’t cross. And when your light is green as a driver, caution is still a virtue.

But you still cannot help but wonder how a major road as this will be built amidst such teeming numbers of people living and working at Lapaz without a single, sacred thought of a bridge.

Men and moving metal must never interact on this Lapaz side of the N1 Highway in Accra and the failure of planners in seeing this is murderous negligence.

This is especially because on other sections of the highway there are footbridges that have become white elephants because they were not placed appropriately.

Crossing the N1 Highway on any day is a difficult task for many especially the market women and the elderly.

But you reserve your worst nightmare when the lights go off and the traffic lights don’t work.

That intersection suddenly becomes a death trap.