Part-worns shown the door in Ghana

They’re still legal in the UK, but many other countries are choosing to distance themselves from part-worn tyres. Ghana is the latest to announce it will enforce a ban on these products. The country’s governmental road safety authority, the National Road Safety Commission, will begin doing so in September 2013. Prior to this date the NRSC will run a public education campaign to prepare motorists.

According to Ghana’s road traffic regulations, a tyre cannot be fitted on a motor vehicle or trailer if it was manufactured more than four years earlier. A study conducted by the NRSC found that 75 per cent of used tyres entering Ghana were older than this. Furthermore, not all imported part-worns are appropriately temperature rated; class C tyres, which have the lowest capacity to withstand and dissipate heat, are amongst the tyres entering the African nation.