JANUARY 25,2012:
A TECHIMAN-bound commercial Ford bus and a Daewoo taxi heading towards Berekum in the Brong Ahafo Region yesterday collided, resulting in the death of 16 people including a baby boy on the spot.
All the passengers on the Ford were burnt beyond recognition, except one person who was occupying the front passenger’s seat who managed to escape.
Two other people in the taxi were also burnt, according to an eyewitness.
The Ford passengers were trapped as the door was automatically locked following the head-on collision.
The taxi driver was also trapped by his seat-belt.
The accident occurred around 3pm when the two drivers were travelling on a section of the road which had been engulfed in thick smoke due to bush fires.
According to Kwadwo Nimo, an eyewitness, he had alighted from the Daewoo taxi cab before the accident occurred.
He said soon after getting off at the Kwagyasco farms junction where there was a raging bushfire, he saw the taxi taking off but it soon crashed into the oncoming Ford due to poor visibility in the thickly wafting smoke.
Nimo said following the collision, the taxi veered off the road and fell into the nearby fire and caught fire instantly as it was filled with gas.
Two passengers on board the taxi escaped while one was able to escape from the Ford.
He stated that by the time the Fire Service vehicle got to the scene, the two vehicles and the 16 people were burnt beyond recognition.
Most of the horrified drivers who arrived at the scene attributed the tragedy to the rampant bushfire in the area.
As at the time of filing this story, the police were collecting the remains of the victims to be deposited at the Sunyani Regional Hospital morgue.
The police personnel on the ground were not ready to talk as they said they needed permission from their superiors.
Source: http://news1.ghananation.com/latest-news/245598-16-burnt-to-ashes-in-fatal-accident-in-brong-ahafo-region.html
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
21 Dead-Sunyani Road
January 24,2012:
At least 21 people are feared dead after a Ford passenger bus and a taxi-cab collided head-on at Ayakomaso in Sunyani Municipality about 1400 hours on Tuesday.
An eye witness told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that all the 18 passengers of the Ford bus traveling from Dormaa-Ahenkro to Sunyani and three passengers on the Sunyani-Berekum bound taxi-cab were completely burnt beyond recognition.
The eye-witness added two passengers on the taxi-cab were the only survivors of the accident.
Chief Inspector Obeng Dompreh confirming the accident to the GNA said the Police and personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) from Sunyani were busily making frantic efforts to retrieve the dead bodies from the accident spot.
Source: http://www.modernghana.com/news/374038/1/21-people-are-feared-dead-in-a-sunyani-road-accide.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
At least 21 people are feared dead after a Ford passenger bus and a taxi-cab collided head-on at Ayakomaso in Sunyani Municipality about 1400 hours on Tuesday.
An eye witness told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that all the 18 passengers of the Ford bus traveling from Dormaa-Ahenkro to Sunyani and three passengers on the Sunyani-Berekum bound taxi-cab were completely burnt beyond recognition.
The eye-witness added two passengers on the taxi-cab were the only survivors of the accident.
Chief Inspector Obeng Dompreh confirming the accident to the GNA said the Police and personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) from Sunyani were busily making frantic efforts to retrieve the dead bodies from the accident spot.
Source: http://www.modernghana.com/news/374038/1/21-people-are-feared-dead-in-a-sunyani-road-accide.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Sunday, January 22, 2012
3 people dead at ANOMABU;several injured
Accident: Three people die at Anomabu
January 21,2012
Three people have been confirmed dead after cars they were travelling in were involved in an accident at Anomabu on the Cape Coast-Mankessim highway in the Central region.
The accident which occurred on Saturday afternoon involved three vehicles – a Range Rover with a registration number GR 4601 T, a VW Passat and a vehicle belonging to the Deputy Director of the Church of Pentecost.
Several other persons were also injured in the accident.
Joy FM’s Central Region correspondent Richard Kwadwo Nyarko reports that the cars were damaged “beyond repairs”.
The injured have been taken to hospital, he said.
The accident, he said, has created a huge vehicular traffic on the road, but the police have moved to the scene to maintain order and control situation there.
Source: Ghanaweb/Joy Online
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=228233
January 21,2012
Three people have been confirmed dead after cars they were travelling in were involved in an accident at Anomabu on the Cape Coast-Mankessim highway in the Central region.
The accident which occurred on Saturday afternoon involved three vehicles – a Range Rover with a registration number GR 4601 T, a VW Passat and a vehicle belonging to the Deputy Director of the Church of Pentecost.
Several other persons were also injured in the accident.
Joy FM’s Central Region correspondent Richard Kwadwo Nyarko reports that the cars were damaged “beyond repairs”.
The injured have been taken to hospital, he said.
The accident, he said, has created a huge vehicular traffic on the road, but the police have moved to the scene to maintain order and control situation there.
Source: Ghanaweb/Joy Online
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=228233
Monday, January 16, 2012
SUMMARY OF DEC 2011 ROAD ACCIDENTS
The Motor Traffic and Transport Unit of the Police Service has disclosed, as many as 246 deaths were recorded in the month of December, 2011 from 1,231 motor crashes.
Head of Education, Research and Training of MTTU, ASP Alexander Kwaku Obeng said 1,731 vehicles were involved in these accidents which saw 1,258 obtaining varying degrees of injuries.
ASP Obeng added that 157 of the crashes were fatal with the majority of accidents caused by human error, particularly reckless driving and lawlessness.
Also, between the short period of December 31, 2011 to 1, January 2012, eight accident deaths were also documented. The same number was recorded same period last year. Pedestrians who were affected by these crashes numbered 209.
Source Adom News Ghana
SOURCE: http://www.ghanatoghana.com/Ghanahomepage/ghana-road-accidents-246-die-in-road-crashes-in-december-2011
Head of Education, Research and Training of MTTU, ASP Alexander Kwaku Obeng said 1,731 vehicles were involved in these accidents which saw 1,258 obtaining varying degrees of injuries.
ASP Obeng added that 157 of the crashes were fatal with the majority of accidents caused by human error, particularly reckless driving and lawlessness.
Also, between the short period of December 31, 2011 to 1, January 2012, eight accident deaths were also documented. The same number was recorded same period last year. Pedestrians who were affected by these crashes numbered 209.
Source Adom News Ghana
SOURCE: http://www.ghanatoghana.com/Ghanahomepage/ghana-road-accidents-246-die-in-road-crashes-in-december-2011
4 DEAD; 31 injured--OFFINSO
January 16,2012:
FOUR PERSONS including a nursing mother and her child are dead following a gory accident which occurred at Offinso in the Ashanti region.
The accident which occurred around 11:30pm on Saturday also claimed the lives of a driver and a spare driver of a Yutong bus.
About 31 people also got severely injured and were rushed to the hospital for treatment.
The accident occurred when the Yutong bus, registered GW 256-10, crashed into a Neoplan bus with registration number GR 4267-D.
Both vehicles were heading towards Kumasi when the Yutong bus crashed into the back of the Neoplan bus, which was ahead of it.
Eyewitness accounts indicated that the impact of the crash was so severe that it caused so much noise in the usually peaceful area.
The impact woke up residents as they rushed to the scene to offer help to the injured.
They said two out of the 31 injured persons who were rushed to the Saint Patrick’s Hospital at Offinso were later referred to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi following the severity of their injuries.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi
Source:Daily Graphic: http://www.dailyguideghana.com/?p=36603
FOUR PERSONS including a nursing mother and her child are dead following a gory accident which occurred at Offinso in the Ashanti region.
The accident which occurred around 11:30pm on Saturday also claimed the lives of a driver and a spare driver of a Yutong bus.
About 31 people also got severely injured and were rushed to the hospital for treatment.
The accident occurred when the Yutong bus, registered GW 256-10, crashed into a Neoplan bus with registration number GR 4267-D.
Both vehicles were heading towards Kumasi when the Yutong bus crashed into the back of the Neoplan bus, which was ahead of it.
Eyewitness accounts indicated that the impact of the crash was so severe that it caused so much noise in the usually peaceful area.
The impact woke up residents as they rushed to the scene to offer help to the injured.
They said two out of the 31 injured persons who were rushed to the Saint Patrick’s Hospital at Offinso were later referred to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi following the severity of their injuries.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah Jnr., Kumasi
Source:Daily Graphic: http://www.dailyguideghana.com/?p=36603
Monday, January 2, 2012
3 DEAD - TEMA-AFLAO ROAD
3 Die In Accident On Tema-Afao Road
(December 31/January 1,2012)
It took a combine team of Fire Service and Police personnel over two hours to cut through a Toyota saloon car to retrieve the remains of three men, whose vehicle collided with another vehicle while taking on the Tema-Aflao road, resulting in their instant death.
The three, in their late 30s, died on the spot in the early hours of Saturday when the Toyota Carina E, with registration number GR 5767 Y in which they were travelling was dragged into a ditch by an oncoming tanker between Miotso and Dawhenya.
Inspector Emmanuel Degboem the leader of Dawhenya police patrol team which arrived on the scene minutes after the accident, told the Daily Graphic that at about 4:45 a.m. the saloon car heading towards Accra attempted to overtake a trailer without regard for an oncoming tanker.
Inspector Degboe said in the process the saloon car drove head-on into the taker with registration number AS 9566 D, which was on its way to Ada.
The tanker loaded with premix, dragged the car over 50 metres before it eventually run into a ditch.
Although the deceased were not identified at the time of filing this report, the team of Police and Fire Service took the badly deformed bodies to the nearest hospital.
The driver of the tanker whose name was given as Ebenezer Nartey, could not be immediately found at the gory accident scene but his mate, Adjetey Mensah, told the Graphic reporter that his master had been rushed to a nearby clinic for first aid.
source:Modern Ghana
Link: http://www.modernghana.com/news/369753/1/3-die-in-accident-on-tema-afao-road.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
(December 31/January 1,2012)
It took a combine team of Fire Service and Police personnel over two hours to cut through a Toyota saloon car to retrieve the remains of three men, whose vehicle collided with another vehicle while taking on the Tema-Aflao road, resulting in their instant death.
The three, in their late 30s, died on the spot in the early hours of Saturday when the Toyota Carina E, with registration number GR 5767 Y in which they were travelling was dragged into a ditch by an oncoming tanker between Miotso and Dawhenya.
Inspector Emmanuel Degboem the leader of Dawhenya police patrol team which arrived on the scene minutes after the accident, told the Daily Graphic that at about 4:45 a.m. the saloon car heading towards Accra attempted to overtake a trailer without regard for an oncoming tanker.
Inspector Degboe said in the process the saloon car drove head-on into the taker with registration number AS 9566 D, which was on its way to Ada.
The tanker loaded with premix, dragged the car over 50 metres before it eventually run into a ditch.
Although the deceased were not identified at the time of filing this report, the team of Police and Fire Service took the badly deformed bodies to the nearest hospital.
The driver of the tanker whose name was given as Ebenezer Nartey, could not be immediately found at the gory accident scene but his mate, Adjetey Mensah, told the Graphic reporter that his master had been rushed to a nearby clinic for first aid.
source:Modern Ghana
Link: http://www.modernghana.com/news/369753/1/3-die-in-accident-on-tema-afao-road.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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