Six people crashed to death by an articulator truck.

Nkawkaw(E/R), July 7, GNA - Six persons including a one-year-old boy in a Tico tax car were crashed to death by an articulator truck in Nkawkaw on Tuesday.

Three people walking along the road also received severe injuries and were rushed to the Holy Family Hospital for treatment. According to the Nkawkaw Divisional Commander of the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit of the Police Service (MTTU), Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Shaibu Osei, said the Tico taxi cap with registration number GT9068X from Kumasi was following a vehicle which suddenly stopped for some passengers to alight.

He said instead of the taxi driver to stop, he rather tried to overtake the vehicle ahead of him and had a head-long collision with the articulator truck registratered GT9125Y from the opposite direction loaded with steel. Mr Osei said the six passengers in the taxi cap including the one-year-old baby boy died on the spot and their bodies had been sent to the Holy Family Hospital mortuary at Nkawkaw.

ASP Osei said the dead were identified as Joyce Frimpong and her year-old baby, Akwasi Frimpong, Yaw Frimpong, Gifty Akotsu, Rozecta Akotsu and Ebenezer Oppong. He advised drivers to avoid speeding and wrong overtaking. July 7, 2010