Background
Motorcycle is gradually becoming the preferred means of transport, hence there has been a substantial growth in its use in low-income and middle-income countries across the globe, (Factsheet-Kenya). In Ghana, this is noticeable in remote areas where poverty rate is high, availability of cars is limited and in most busy areas like the capital city ,Accra, where there is heavy vehicular traffic, higher cost of hiring taxis to run ones errands around town among other reasons. Last year, the DVLA in Tamale registered over 10,500 motorcycles and from January to June this year, they registered over 5,486, which by the end of the year would be approximately over 10,972 registered motorcycles. (Enoch Darfah Frimpong; graphiconline.com). According to the ministry of public health and sanitation in Kenya, there has been an increase in the number of registered motorcycles in the past six(6) years. Between 2005 and 2011, motorcycle registration increased by almost 40-fold and in 2011 alone, motorcycles made up 70% of all newly registered vehicles (Factsheet-Kenya). The rate of motorcycle accidents which forms a fatal category of motor traffic accidents in the world is very alarming and Ghana is no exception. On daily basis the risk of motorcycle passengers, pedestrians, and motorcyclists themselves getting involved in accidents increases making them the most vulnerable road users.
