GHANA NEEDS KENYAN STUDENT'S INVENTION TO CURB ROAD ACCIDENT

Following the high rate of road accidents in Ghana, a recent invention by Anthony Muthungu, a second-year Physics and Mathematics student at Karatina University Kenyan  which can help reduce road crashes is perhaps what Ghana needs.
According to Muthungu the device will alert motorists whenever they approach blackspots from as far as 500 metres. 

The device also signals the drivers after they exit such notorious sections. “This means that the motorist will be aware they are approaching a dangerous zone, and they will therefore reduce the speed to avoid accidents,” said Mr Muthungu. 

Christened LUAM Blackspot Tracer, the gadget is a hybrid of two electronic devices, which are configured through a software that he invented. Muthungu uses an ordinary television remote control as one of the gadgets that will be fixed at black spots.

“The remote control is upgraded through the software such that it sends a signal which is then captured by the signal module receiver fitted in a vehicle. The receiver encodes the signal and transfers it to an LCD fitted in the dash board, which warns the driver that they are in an accident-prone area,” said Muthungu.

When in “safer” road sections, the LCD light dims, but while in a black spot zone, the LCD produces bright fast-blinking flashes of light and an alarm immediately goes off. Inevitably  however, Muthungu will have to feed his gadgets with details about all blackspot areas on Kenyan roads.