The manager in charge of planning and education at the National Road Safety Commission, Mrs. May Obiri Yeboah has appealed to religious leaders to join in educational campaigns to help ensure an accident free season as the Christmas and New Year celebrations draw near. According to her, when the education and sensitization is taken to the churches and mosques in the country, it will go down well since most people in the country have a great sense of respect and obedience for their religious and opinion leaders. “We all know that traditional and religious leaders are respected a lot and when they talk, people listen so if we get them to support us and talk to their people, it will help us,” she further explained. Speaking on Xfm’s ‘the Big Bite’ morning show on Tuesday, 2011, she stressed that in as much as religious leaders are interested in winning and saving souls for God, they should also help to protect those souls from fatal road carnages. She said the commission’s extensive safety and educational efforts to reduce accidents during the festive season already started in November this year with an award scheme to honour drivers and transport service providers who are doing well in preventing accidents on the roads. She further said the Association of passengers, a union formed to promote the interest of passengers as well as educate road passengers and driver unions has also been included in the exercise to ensure all and sundry in the road sector to contribute their efforts. Ghana is still struggling with the issue of road carnage especially during the festive seasons and statistics from the commission indicates that almost one thousand five hundred (1,500) lives have been lost so far in 2011 while others have been seriously injured, a situation road experts say does not auger well for the human capital and productivity of the country.