Adjetey Sowah was to pick his boss from work around five yesterday. He was running errands for the boss in the Dome area when time caught upon him. With traffic piling up on the road, Adjetey managed to take the Dome Kwabenya Police route which would have to lead him to Medina to pick his boss from work. Just after the Dome Kwabenya Police divisional command, was where Adjetey met his tragedy.
Three school children from Koas Montessori were crossing the road in front of the Ghana Atomic Energy building, on the Atomic Junction stretch when Adjetey saw them few inches from his car. There we nothing I could do, and the least mistake I would have done would have killed them all. They are young kids and didn’t look before crossing the road, and I couldn’t blame them.
The only thing I saw was to get off the road and save the children, they could have been my children or my bosses children so instead of crashing them, I held to my handbrakes and drifted off the main road. I wasn’t lucky and got myself crashing the Neem tree which was situated on the right-hand side of the road, Adjetey narrated.
Adjetey in an attempt to save the Koas Montessori school children crashed into a Neem tree adjacent to the Ghana Atomic Energy building. Street hawkers came to the aid of Adjetey, but he wasn’t injured due to his seatbelts and steering airbags which prevented him from injuring his body.
He was taken to the Dome Kwabenya Ga East District Hospital by taxi drivers loading from the junction to ACP. Adjetey was not wounded but the entire car’s hood; Hyundai Elantra was wreaked beyond repairs. I am happy nobody died, I don’t think about the car right now, insurance it’s there, you did well, you did the best thing to save these children, Mr Augustine Apau, the owner of the car said at the hospital.
Dome Kwabenya Police command has towed the car to their police command whiles investigations is ongoing. The accident might change a few things at the junction since there are no zebra crossings. We are also working with the assembly to help place traffic lights there to help commuters, Officer Charles Appiani said in explaining what should be expected to prevent pedestrians from been knocked down on the junction again.
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