{"id":222170,"date":"2026-01-29T00:10:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-december-road-crashes-claim-276-lives-nrsa-data-reveals\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T00:10:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:10:02","slug":"ghana-december-road-crashes-claim-276-lives-nrsa-data-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-december-road-crashes-claim-276-lives-nrsa-data-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: December Road Crashes Claim 276 Lives &#8211; &#8211; Nrsa Data Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">There was an increase in the number of deaths recorded from road crashes in December last year compared to the same period in 2024, according to provisional data released by the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The data showed that 276 deaths, representing a 16 per cent increase, were recorded in December last year, compared to 238 deaths recorded during the same period the previous year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The report also highlighted increases in reported road crash cases, the number of vehicles involved,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601280500.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an increase in the number of deaths recorded from road crashes in December last year compared to the same period in 2024, according to provisional data released by the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA). The data showed that 276 deaths, representing a 16 per cent increase, were recorded in December last year, compared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8667,11104,9880,6939,4508,4509,8485,257,34773,14326,7414,254],"class_list":["post-222170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claim","tag-crashes","tag-data","tag-december","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-lives","tag-news","tag-nrsa","tag-reveals","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}