Nine people are feared dead in a fatal accident at Eduagyei/Ayensudo road on the Cape Coast- Takoradi highway on Sunday morning.
According to the Central Regional Command of the Ghana National Fire Service, it received a distress call at 6:49am reporting the incident and a rescue team from the Regional Headquarters was quickly dispatched to the scene.
The accident involved a Sprinter bus, Man Diesel Articulated Truck and Howo Tipper truck with registration numbers GR6081-18, GW5416-24 and GB1592-22 respectively.
The Sprinter bus was traveling from the Cape Coast direction towards Takoradi, and the two other trucks were traveling in the opposite direction from Takoradi when they collided.
The rescue team extricated the driver, and four passengers who died on the spot while the other injured passengers were helped by personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service and some passersby to convey them to the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital for medical treatment.
Speaking exclusively to the driver of the Howo tipper truck, who gave his name as prince, he said, “I was on my way to the cape coast direction when the driver of the DAF Man Diesel articulated truck did a wrong overtaking and, in the process, met the sprinter from the Cape Coast direction which had also done a wrong overtaking and collided with it.
The eyewitness added that to save himself and to help prevent further fatality, he veered off the road
“The overtaking by the DAF Man Diesel truck which was initially behind me and the sprinter bus happened spontaneously, so I sensed danger and veered off the road to save the situation, but unfortunately my car ended up in the bush while the two vehicles ended up in a head-on collision. Thankfully, I didn’t suffer any injury, but my mate had a minor injury which is a bruise on his leg,’’ he explained.
Maame Efua, a relative of the sprinter driver in an exclusive interview with the news team Said “I was in church when I got a call that my brother’s car was involved in an accident and had died so I rushed to come here to verify.”
She said her brother was traveling from Joma near Apam in the Central Region to Sekondi when he met his untimely death.
The news team met personnel from the Ghana Police Service who were there to clear the road and direct traffic after the incident created heavy traffic on the road.
Personnel from the Ghana Ambulance Service where also spotted attending to some persons who suffered minor injuries at the accident scene.
Later at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, the news team gathered from some sources that four people had died, bringing the number of casualties to nine.
Scores of relatives had trickled in to identify their families who had passed or were receiving treatment after sustaining various degrees of injury.
Sandra, also a brother of the sprinter driver who was wailing confirmed the death of her brother and said, “after hearing the news about the accident I decided to follow up here at the hospital to check on my brother who I was told may be part of the bodies sent to the morgue and lo and behold when I came he was here with eight others comprising of 5 males and 3 women.’’
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