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Mobile phones, if properly used, can prevent vehicular accident in the country, an expert has said.
According to the telecommunication expert, some institutions are already benefiting from the technology in the country.
The Head of Network at Vodafone, Ebenezer Siebu, made the observations in an interview with Onua TV as the world marks 50th anniversary of mobile telephone communications.
Onua TV wanted to know how mobile phones have changed lives and impacted on businesses since its inception.
Mr. Siebu explained that most of the accidents that occur on major roads are as a result of speeding and mobile phone can be used to minimize this.
“We don’t preach on what we don’t live by so we are even leveraging on these solutions internally,” he explained.
He said they are using this system to track their vehicles internally across the country which has reduced accidents involving their vehicles.
“We have fixed these tracking systems in all our vehicles to monitor speeding in real times which prompts us whether a driver is speeding. Not only for speeding, that is one aspect. Another aspect is journey management. For example, one driver can drive from here [in Accra] to Tamale for long hours. But if the company policy says a driver must park and rest every three hours in a journey, our tracking systems can monitor all these,” Mr. Siebu revealed.
He explained that road safety experts say speeding is a major cause of accidents in the country but such mobile tracking system can minimize such accidents because such tracking systems can psychologically prompt the driver to limit his or her speed.
“It drives behaviour toward desirable outcomes”.
Asked whether such facilities have been made available to the stakeholders in road safety management, Mr. Siebu said already, they are in collaboration with some stakeholders on the use of mobile phones in reducing accidents.
“The good thing is that we are already in touch with the major stakeholders and they also appreciate the value of these solutions and some of these enterprises and some of the public agencies have implemented these tracking solutions in their vehicles,” he added.
Mr. Siebu said “what we are going to see in the future is increase adoption of some of these things to save lives and also benefit the economy”.
By Kweku Antwi-Otoo|3news.com|Ghana
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