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The government has expressed condolence to the relatives of last Saturday's accident victims at Gomoa Mprumem near Apam and presented them with GH�500 and beverages. Mrs. Dzifa Attivor, the Deputy Minister of Transport, on Wednesday led a team of police officers, officials of the National Road Safety Commission and the District Chief Executive for Gomoa West Mr. Theophilus Aidoo-Mensah, to express condolence to the relatives. A prison officer lost control over a taxi and crashed with mini bus, killing a woman and her two granddaughters who were selling water melon by the road side. The accident claimed seven lives, six on the spot and one at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. Three of the victims hailed from Mprumem. Mrs. Attivor said even though the government had put in place measures to reduce carnage on the roads some stubborn drivers had made them in effective. She appealed to passengers not to allow drivers to toil with their lives, saying it was their right to insist on drivers doing the right thing and appealed to passengers to report misconduct of drivers to the police. Mrs Attivor urged assemblies to find suitable places for people to sell their wares instead of hawking them along main roads at the peril of their lives. Assistant Commissioner of Police Daniel Julius Avorga, the |Commander of the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU), appealed to the security officers to obey the laws of the land. He said this when he was informed that the prison officer who was driving the taxi had only a learner's license and it was issued to him three days before the accident. The delegation presented GH�500 and beverages to the victims and also visited a victim at the Winneba Government Hospital.