Ten persons, including eight females and two males, were reported dead in a gory accident at Teacher Mante, a community along the Accra-Kumasi highway in the Eastern Region Thursday afternoon. A one-and-a-half-year-old boy also died in the accident.
According to eyewitnesses, the accident happened when the brake of a cargo trailer truck registered GT 1624 F from Accra to Kumasi failed and rammed a VIP bus with registration number GE 2293-10 carrying passengers.
The driver of the cargo truck had his right hand chopped off, while several others in the bus sustained various degrees of injury.
Others were said to have suffered from internal bleeding.
A police source at the scene told DAILY GUIDE that five of the passengers died on the spot, while the five others were conveyed in an ambulance to Nsawam Government Hospital but were pronounced dead on arrival.
Several others, who sustained injuries on their necks and hands, were rushed to the hospital for treatment.
The bodies of the deceased have been deposited at the same facility pending autopsy.
The situation led to heavy vehicular traffic on the road as that portion of the highway had been blocked.
Officials of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) from Ayensuano District, police and Fire Service personnel had visited the scene to clear the road at the time of filing this report.
In a related development, a driver, Justice Opoku 39, currently in the custody of the Nsawam Police, who is assisting in investigation, was handling a Man Diesel truck with registration number GS 9675-13, loaded with iron rods from Tema to Kumasi.
According to reports, the driver, on reaching a section of the road at Kabore Filling Station, parked the vehicle to take some rest.
In a few minutes time, he alleged the vehicle moved on its own, crossed the road from Accra direction and landed in the lane from the Kumasi direction on the dual carriageway, plunged into the railings erected by the roadside, blocking the road entirely.
The vehicle was later driven off the road by the driver.
Source: Daily Guide
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Thank the MTTU for their wonderful job of bribe-taking. they have done very well...and their bosses as well. I wonder how they feel when they read such news. Some will argue they did not cause this accident but that will be naive. Some of the vehicles being driven on the roads by human beings are not even fit to be driven by robots...unless of course you want to destroy your robots! some of these drivers even pay for their licenses instead of passing through the necessary training to acquire them on merit. How would any police officer feel if the one and half year old boy was his/her child? I saw that boy lying lifeless on the road and I got so furious...so angry with the corrupt police people in this country. How the heck was a truck with faulty breaks allowed on the roads in the first place? and if you check this car has passed road-worthy test this year right under the noses of people who were paid with the taxpayer's money to ensure non-road worthy vehicles do not get on the road!How dare you people! How dare you corrupt police officers take bribe and let murderers loose on our roads to spill our blood! how dare you! The blood of this innocent child child shall be on the hands of every officer who comprises his/her duty in ensuring safety on the road...including those police officers who take bribes and those at the DVLA who issue licenses to the highest bidder. How dare you people take our lives for granted!
I know people will say its an accident......but the fact is common sense on the part of previous government and current ones have all contributed to this........in this modern world ghana cannot revamp its railway and get cargo transported on tracks......rather than thos kokompe.....kumasi magazine trucks always having to kill .....aaaaba phorking things nkoaaaa...