Ban Toyota Voxy for commercial purposes to prevent lorry accidents – Safe Journey Foundation CEO urges Govt, DVLA
Following the rampant road crashes across the country, especially in the last 11 months of 2025, Mr Patrick Kwame Frimpong, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Safe Journey Foundation, a non-governmental organisation specialised in road safety education, has made a passionate appeal to the government to urgently take steps to ban Toyota Voxy from being used for commercial purposes.
Toyota Voxy
According to him, the urgent need to ban the three-seater Toyota Voxy, which is meant for family use in many parts of the world, has been turned to commercial use in Ghana, increasing lorry accidents and road crashes.
In an exclusive interview on Sunday, 14th December, 2025, Mr Frimpong, who is also the Assembly member for the Krofrom East electoral area and Presiding Member (PM) of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), said all stakeholders should join hands to get the government, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) and National Road Safety Authority to ban Toyota Voxy for commercial purposes.
Mr.Patrick Kwame Frimpong
He recalled that Ghana decided to ban wooden vehicles and the Peugeot 504 for commercial purposes when it realised they were contributing to several road clashes.
He cautioned that if the government, DVLA, National Road Safety Authority and other stakeholders don’t step in immediately to ban the Toyota Voxy for commercial purposes, Ghana may soon become the country with the highest number of road clashes or leading road accidents in the world and Africa.
The CEO of Safe Journey Foundation said even though the nation has been recording road clashes or accidents, soon, with the inception of the Toyota Voxy for commercial purposes, the lorry accidents will worsen.The way the drivers are overspending.
It would be recalled that the Director of Education, Research, and Training at the Police Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD), Chief Superintendent Alexander Kwaku Obeng, has raised concerns about Ghana’s worsening road safety situation, revealing troubling figures just weeks before the Christmas season.
He disclosed that 13,000 road accidents were recorded between January and November this year, describing the trend as both “perplexing” and deeply alarming.
According to him, the crashes involved more than 22,000 vehicles, including private cars, commercial vehicles and motorcycles. He noted that motorcycle incidents continue to dominate the data and are responsible for a large share of the severe injuries and deaths.Chief Supt. Obeng said that within the same 11-month period, 13,000 people sustained injuries, many of them serious.
He explained that the scale and severity of the injuries have placed a heavy burden on families and the country’s healthcare system.Even more disturbing, he revealed that 2,429 people have lost their lives in road traffic crashes so far this year. Of these deaths, 1,937 were males, and 492 were females, showing a disproportionate impact on men, particularly young adults.Pedestrians have also been hit hard. Chief Supt. Obeng reported that 550 pedestrians died while walking along the road or attempting to cross it. “Many of these deaths are linked to motorcycle crashes,” he said in an interview on Channel One TV.He warned that Ghana is entering the festive Yuletide period,
traditionally one of the most dangerous times on the road, and said the risks will rise sharply if urgent action is not taken.“The national road safety problem in Ghana calls for all hands on deck,” he said, stressing that the continuous rise in crashes shows that current safety measures are not enough.Source:By: tntnewspapergh.com
