The National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) says with the rising traffic and recklessness on the roads, some 12,000 persons could be killed while 40,000 could be injured by 2010 if appropriate measures are not put in place to check drivers’ behaviours. Mr. Daniel O. Adonteng, Deputy Director, Research, Monitoring and Evaluation of the Commission said this on Friday at the celebration of the International Transport Action Campaign Week in Accra. It was on the theme: "Organizing globally, building union power, correcting indiscipline on our roads, eradicating the carnage and addressing the undue delay at our frontiers". He said between the years 2000 and 2006 alone 11,962 persons were killed while 33,805 were injured in 70,534 accidents reported. He cited unnecessary overtaking, driving above approved speed limits, over-loading of vehicles, abandoning broken-down vehicles on the roads without warning signs, drink-driving and the use of poorly maintained vehicles as some of the basic road traffic offences that were likely to cause accidents and advised drivers to avoid such pitfalls as a way of reducing the carnage on the roads. Mr Adonteng expressed concern about the high level of indiscipline among drivers of commercial and private vehicles and called for the creation of a "dedicated police enforcement team" to support the NRSC to enforce the laws to minimize fatal road accidents. He also suggested the establishment of road safety call centres, a "National Driver Academy" and the inclusion of road safety education in the curriculum of basic schools in the country. Mr Emmanuel Armstrong Mensah, Coordinator of the Federation of Transport Unions, urged the authorities to check undue delays of drivers at the country's borders, which was hampering the movement of road transport organizations and businesses across the frontiers. Mr Kofi Asamoah, Deputy Secretary General of the Ghana Trades Union Congress urged the transport unions in Ghana to link up effectively with their counterparts in the West Africa Sub-Region to help minimize the carnage on the roads and also help to solve problems that transporters face at the frontiers. Source: GNA