A transport consultant has advised parents and guardians to desist from allowing children below the age of 12 years cross the road all by themselves.

According to Mr. Cecil Garbrah, parents should hold the hands of their wards and assist them to cross the roads to reduce the number of road carnages recorded in the country.

Speaking on JoyNews' PM Express, he stated that "at that tender age, which I say from 5 to 11years, we shouldn't allow our child to go and cross a road. Let's hold their hands, take them to the roadsides even if we are busy, for them to look at vehicles passing for them to know what the pedestrian crossing is.

"Let them understand what it means. Where you have to cross, how they have to cross. We need education for these children."

Reiterating the need for education, he explained that children are vulnerable, thus need assistance from adults.

"We as parents need to start helping every child. Sometimes, you can see that a child wants to cross the road and is finding it really difficult, so I am looking at the way forward. We all need to get ourselves involved.

"Children need particular help in detecting the presence of traffic and judging the speed of oncoming traffic, this is a difficult part," he told Aisha Ibrahim on Monday.

Again, Mr Cecil Garbrah shared some pieces of advice he gives his students during lectures.

"As for drivers, the least we talk about them that will resolve our issues. Because most drivers as I have said are not drivers and I always tell my class when I'm lecturing that 'look here, when you are driving and you look around and see 10 vehicles, five of them, excuse me to say, are mad. So you drive well and don't look at those people.'"

His comments come as a response to a hotline documentary by JoyNews' Seth Kwame Boateng dubbed " Crushed Young" that sheds light on the increasing number of road carnages and its aftermath on the lives of victims.

The documentary narrows down on the life of Moses, an incapacitated 13-year-old child who has already undergone eight surgeries and has two more scheduled due to a road accident.

Mr Cecil Garbrah described as sad the current situation of the young victim. He also lauded the Multimedia Group for its road safety campaign to end road accidents in the country.

"I like Multimedia a lot for talking about road safety every day so we reduce the carnage on our roads. We need to get everybody involved," he said.

Meanwhile, statistics from the Motor Traffic and Transport Directorate (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service, indicates that as many as 256 people died from road crashes in July, 2021 alone.

It brings the number of people who have been killed in road accidents since the beginning of this year to 1,706.