Why are Ghana's roads so deadly? Latest fatality sparks fury in Accra

Violent protests have followed the death of a schoolgirl on a highway that has claimed 195 lives this year. But what’s causing the carnage?

Across the busy Adenta-Madina highway in Ghana’s capital, Accra, there loom six incomplete concrete footbridges. Unusable for their intended purpose, they currently serve as advertising hoarding for politicians and companies.

For well over a decade since the highway – but not its pedestrian bridges – was completed, residents of the city’s Adenta district have watched, horrified, as the traffic has grown worse and pedestrian fatalities have become more common, thanks both to reckless driving and the lack of safe crossing places.

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