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New year’s eve accident claims seven lives on Akosombo road

Seven people on new year’s eve lost their lives in a gory accident on the Kpong-Akuse stretch of the Tema-Akosombo road in the Eastern Region.

While 18 people sustained injuries, nine are reported to be in a critical condition in two healthcare facilities—the Akuse Government Hospital and the St. Martins de Porres Hospital.

According to an eyewitness account, the accident happened at Abusakope when a speeding Sprinter with 16 passengers on board bumped into a parked-faulty-tipper truck with registration number GN 2064-14 loaded with sand.

Seven people inside the Sprinter with registration Number GN 8209- 15 died instantly while others sustained life-threatening injuries, hours before the sun set on 2020.

The Mercedez-Benz sprinter was from Accra heading to the Volta Regional capital, Ho.

The deceased and injured passengers were trapped in the vehicle. It took personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service and Police to extricate and rush the injured to the two hospitals.

Starr Online quoted Simon Kweku Tetteh, the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) for Lower Manya Krobo, who was at the scene, describing the accident as unfortunate.

He promised to provide medical care to the victims whose families are yet to be known.

Although accidents on the single-lane Tema-Akosombo road are rare. There have been a few fatal ones.

On February 1, 2007, 14, people perished while four others were left in critical condition after a tipper truck and a passenger Benz bus collided.

The four were sent to the Akuse Government Hospital.

Chief Superintendent Emmanuel Bosso, the Akuse District Police Commander who got to the scene minutes after the accident said a preliminary investigation showed the white tipper truck with registration number AS 7175 X which was headed for a nearby Obobloase limestone quarry, veered off course and lunged head-on into the advancing bus.

The Benz bus with registration number GT 2933 H was heading from Hohoe in the Volta Region to Tema with workers and market women.

On April 3, 215, two police personnel from the Tema Police Region lost their lives in a motor accident on the Tema-Akosombo road.

The deceased officers were personnel from the Region’s patrol and transport operations units.

The dead police officers who were part of the Tema-Akosombo high way patrol were returning from patrol duties when the incident occurred.

She said the patrol vehicle collided with a Kia truck leading to the death of the police personnel.

 

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