“We are pleading for the government to do more”: Road user perspectives on the magnitude, contributing factors, and potential solutions to road traffic injuries and deaths in Ghana

• Aldina Mesic ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: amesic@uw.edu

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6425-3777

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• Barclay Stewart,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Irene Opoku,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Building and Road Research Institute, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Bradley H. Wagenaar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Bilal Andoh Mohammed,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Sulemana Abdul Matinue,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Manal Jmaileh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0822-2006

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• James Damsere-Derry,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Adam Gyedu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Charles Mock,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Angela Kitali,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Civil Engineering Program, University of Washington, Tacoma, Washington, United States of America

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• Daniel Hardy Wuaku,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Road Safety Authority, Accra, Ghana

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• Martin Owusu Afram,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation National Road Safety Authority, Accra, Ghana

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• Caryl Feldacker

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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