22 heartbreaking hit-and-run cases in the last decade: A tragic decade on Ghana's roads
Ghana loses hundreds of pedestrians every year to drivers who knock them down and flee. A Transportation Letters study recorded 1,469 hit-and-run crash observations between 2013 and 2020 alone. This is an average of roughly 200 documented hit-and-run crashes a year. A Ghana Medical Journal study found that "unknown" vehicles were responsible for 68% of pedestrian fatalities captured in the National Road Traffic Accident Database.
The National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) recorded 2,494 road traffic deaths in 2024, up from 2,276 in 2023. By mid-2025, more than 1,500 Ghanaians had already died on the roads, with the NRSA warning that the country could close 2025 with as many as 3,000 fatalities. Pedestrians account for between 36.7% and 56% of those deaths, depending on the region; in Kumasi, the figure is as high as 64%.
In January 2015, a young man, believed to be in his mid-twenties, died on the Kaneshie-Odawkaw stretch in Accra. On May 1, 2016, Akwasi Boateng, a 45-year-old Seventh-Day Adventist evangelist, was knocked down at Tanfo Aduam near Ashanti Bekwai. On September 5, 2018, Paul Agbedor, a 37-year-old driver, knocked down a pedestrian near Max Mart Super Market in Accra's Airport area, resulting in the death of a mother of three. On the night of **May 27, 202
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Ghana is grappling with a surge in hit-and-run incidents, leaving a trail of devastation on its roads - pedestrians are particularly vulnerable. These incidents have sparked public outrage and calls for road-safety reform, but what are the stories behind the statistics?
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