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A Private Legal Practitioner, Lawyer Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe, has proposed to Parliament to enact laws that will prevent drivers from driving late in the night.

According to him, the spate at which accidents are claiming lives is so alarming that something drastic should be done immediately before the worse happens.

Speaking on Okay fm's Ade Akye Abia, Edudzi Tamakloe, who is an aide to former president John Dramani Mahama, bemoaned how some drivers try to cheat nature by foregoing rest and end up falling asleep behind the wheel leading to fatal road accidents.

"We cannot continue to look on while innocent lives are lost through road accidents when something can be done about it. It is about time parliament enact laws that will protect passengers and drivers and also reduce road carnages.

"There should be some strict laws that will guide drivers, especially the big truck drivers who carelessly park on the shoulders of the road posing as danger to drivers and pedestrians. Some of these accidents can be avoided if only the laws enacted are enforced by the security agencies," he stated.

He maintained just like governments in advanced countries pass laws relative to road traffic regulations and ensure sure that these laws are strictly adhered to by drivers, same should be done in Ghana.

"We have not even ended the third quarter of the year yet we have recorded not less than 500 deaths through road accidents and it cannot continue like this," he added.

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Passengers burnt to death in accident at Shama

Meanwhile, fourteen (14) persons onboard an Accra-bound Ford vehicle from Tarkwa are believed to have perished in a car crash at Asem Asa in the Shama District, near the boundary between Western and Central Regions.

A number of bodies at the scene of the accident were left charred after the crashed bus caught fire.

According to an eyewitness, the accident occurred after a truck lost control and burst its tyre in an attempted overtaking, and crashed into the Ford.