Regional News of 2012-09-25

13 Lives Lost - In Two Accidents In Central, Ashanti Regions

Thirteen people died in two separate gory accidents in the Central and Ashanti regions Monday and Sunday respectively.
While the accident at Assin Manso in the Central Region claimed the lives of seven people, including a 10-year-old girl; the accident at Mampong in Ashanti killed six people, including an eight-month old boy.
Twenty-four other passengers who were injured in the Assin Manso accident are currently on admission at the Komfo Anokye Teaching and the St. Francis Xavier hospitals in Kumasi and Assin Fosu respectively.
The Assin Manso accident is said to have occurred when an articulated truck ran into a 207 passenger bus from Yeji in the Brong Ahafo Region between Assin Asamankese and Assin Manso in the Central Region.
According to Central Regional Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU), Commander of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent of Police, Mr Paul Aduhene, both drivers were speeding and attempted to avoid a pot hole and in the process collided.
He said as the other vehicle was descending a valley and the other was climbing, the impact was so much that it resulted in the fatality.
Mr Aduhene said the driver of the truck, Mr Adu Gyamfi, 35, survived the accident while that of the 207 bus had been transferred to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.
He said the driver’s mate of the truck, Kwabena Duodu, 22, also died.
He said the 207 bus was travelling from Yeji to Senya Beraku in the Central Region for a funeral when it ran into the truck loaded with cement.
The Central Regional Director of National Road Safety Commission (NRSC), Mr Stephen Anokye, who was at the accident scene, advised drivers to be careful on the road.
According to him, the accident could have been avoided if both drivers had adhered to road regulation.
In the Mampong accident, which occurred at about 10:30pm last Sunday, three of the dead have been identified as Ama Nkrumah 40, Afua Asana 35 and Issah Malik, 20.
It occurred at the outskirts of Bosomkyekye, a town near Mampong in the Ashanti Region when a 207 Mercedez Benz bus in which they were travelling ran into a stationery tipper truck loaded with timber logs.
Briefing graphic.com.gh, the Mampong Divisional MTTU Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mr Benjamin Kwadwo Gyasi , said the 207 Benz bus, with registration number GR 213 T was travelling from Yeji to Kumasi, with 19 passengers on board while the tipper truck with registration number UW 719 T had broken down and had been abandoned by the driver without any warning triangle.
The driver of the 207 Bus, whose name was given only as Razak, ran into the stationery tipper truck, which had three timber logs on it, killing six passengers instantly while six others including the driver were seriously injured.
The injured victims were rushed to the Mampong Government Hospital but three of them were later referred to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.
Mr Gyasi said that the bodies of the deceased had been deposited at the Mampong Government Hospital for autopsy while a search had been mounted for the driver of the abandoned tipper truck, Yaw Boaitey.