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A weeklong international road transport action campaign to sensitize commercial drivers on fatalities resulting from road accidents ended last Friday in Accra with a call on drivers and other road users to obey motor and traffic regulations to prevent carnage on roads. The programme organised by the International Transport Workers Federation and Federation of Transport Unions in Ghana, was to serve as a platform to ensure cohesion in the transport sector, to enhance safe driving in the country. Passengers the Ghana News Agency interacted with during the campaign at lorry stations in Accra, including the Neoplan Lorry Station at Kwame Nkrumah Circle, tasked drivers to respect road and driving rules to avoid accidents. They also cautioned drivers against speeding, unnecessary overtaking, driving for long period and overloading of vehicles to reduce road accidents. Mrs May Obiri-Yeboah, Director of Planning and Programme at the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), expressed concern about indiscipline among commercial vehicles drivers and called on all stakeholders in the transport sector to collaborate and avoid road accidents. She said the NRSC has made policy recommendations to government through the Ministry of Transport to set up a statutory body with adequate powers to institutionalise a regulatory framework to strengthen the transport and roads sector. Mr Emmanuel Amstrong Mensah, General Secretary of the General Transport, Petroleum and Chemical Workers� Union commended the NRSC, the Police and other road transport regulatory agencies for working hard to avoid road accidents. He appealed to government to ensure that road construction projects were completed on schedule to ease traffic congestion.