3 students crushed to death

Three students of the Adeiso Presbyterian Senior High School in the Eastern Region have been crushed to death in a motor accident.

The incident happened on Sunday evening in an accident involving a motorbike and three Hyundai H100 cars.

The male students were riding on a motorcycle from Nsawam to Asamankese when they collided with a Hyundai H100 vehicle at Roman, a suburb of Adeiso.

According to an eyewitness, one of the Hyundai H100 vehicles, in an attempt to overtake two other commercial vehicles, ran into the students.

Sixteen other passengers including the driver and mate of the vehicle who sustained various degrees of injuries are responding to treatment at the Nsawam government hospital.

The identities of the students have been given as Nana Yaw and Nana Kwame.

They are said to be between the ages of 16 and 18.

A total of 517 persons died through road accidents between January and February this year, the Ghana Police Service has said.

This is a jump in the 393 cases recorded in the same period last year.

In all, 2560 road accident cases have been reported between the first two months of 2021.

The accidents tally includes 1581 commercial vehicles, 974 motorcycles, and 2766 pedestrians who have been knocked down.

Of the total figure of road deaths recorded in the past two months, Ashanti Region recorded the highest with 108 deaths, followed by the Eastern Region with 91 deaths, and Greater Accra Region with 89 deaths.

North East Region recorded the lowest number of deaths with two deaths.

According to the Polie report, the major accident hotspots are on Buipe-Tamale road, Akyem-Asafo, the Accra-Tema motorway, Bolga-Navrongo road, as well as Kyekyewere and Mankessim.

A recent accident in March 2021 occurred on the outskirts of Sawla, where a Wa-Kumasi bound Sprinter Benz bus with registration number AS 3022-15 somersaulted and crashed into a nearby bush on the Sawla-Tuna-Kaiba District of the Savannah Region.