Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor has hinted at moving a motion for the House to ensure full implementation of the amendment to the Roads Traffic Act, 2004 (Act 683).

The MP says the move has become necessary following various accidents in parts of the country during the weekend, which resulted in the death of 19 people and injury to many.

The amendment to Act 683, prescribed a murder charge for drivers whose act results in deaths, especially to pregnant women.

The private members bill passed by Parliament in December, 2020, enumerates sanctions against drivers and cyclists whose actions and inactions result in injury or death of unborn children.

Speaking on Joy FM's Super Morning Show Monday, Mr Dafeamekpor, who was a victim of a road accident last week, said he will move the motion when the house resumes in October.

"I'll take it up wholeheartedly... When we convene in October, those are some of the things that will be engaging us," he said.

In the Central Region, 10 people died when two buses collided at Gomoa Mampong on Sunday dawn.

Another head-on collision involving a Sprinter Benz bus and a DAF truck at Apedwa in the Eastern Region, resulted in the death of at least nine persons.

The deceased comprised six females, including a six-month-old baby and three males. They all died on the spot.

Some seven persons, including a pregnant woman sustained various degrees of injury following a head-on collision involving two vehicles in the Upper East Regional town of Zebilla.

Executive Director and Founder of Toptech Transport & Logistics, Cecil Ekow Garbrah has attributed the increase in road traffic accidents to non-enforcement of traffic regulations and drivers' error, which according to him, accounts for 90 percent of road crashes.

Meanwhile, the latest data 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 to 1,706, the number of people who have been killed through road accidents since the beginning of this year.