Kwame Sule, 20, a Roller machine driver sustained serious head injuries and died when he jumped off from the machine suspected to have developed faulty breaks at Asante Mampong last Saturday.
The body has been deposited at the Mampong Municipal Hospital mortuary for autopsy.
According to an eye witness, around 10.45 hours on Saturday, the deceased was working with the Roller on one of the streets at Mampong Zongo.
Suddenly, people started shouting and running away when they saw the Roller moving with speed down the street with the deceased trying to control it.
The Roller veered off the road and run into a parked TICO taxi cab with registration number GR 4778 Y, pushing the cab into a drain.
The witness said the deceased sensing danger, tried to jump from the moving machine but was trapped by a steam belt. He managed to remove it but fell heavily on the road, sustaining head injuries whilst the machine rolled over his left hand.
His co-workers quickly put him in a pick-up and rushed him to the Mampong Municipal Hospital but he died on the way.
When the Ghana News Agency contacted Chief Superintendent Edward Oduro Kwateng, the Mampong Divisional Police Commander, he confirmed the story and said the police was investigating the cause of the accident.
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