The Greater Accra Region has consistently recorded more deaths through motor accidents in the country with the toll jumping from 193 in 2000 to 468 in 2001.

The national figure, however, was down from 1,212 in 2000 to 1,159 in 2001, the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) of the Ghana Police Service, told the Ghana News Agency.

The Acting Commander of the MTTU, ASP Solomon K. Ntim, who was speaking to GNA on Monday after a special operation by the unit in Accra, said 21 traffic offenders were arrested between February 18 and 22 and were sent to court. Twenty of them were fined a total of eight million cedis, while one was jailed for 16 months.

"Last year in Greater Accra 1,022 traffic offenders were convicted out of which 30 were imprisoned, 34 served with warning letters and 57 cases are still pending while the rest paid fines," Mr Ntim said. He said the total revenue generated from the fines paid by these traffic offenders last year amounted to about 350 million cedis.