Motorway Accident: Overturned articulated truck halts traffic

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• Nana K 12 years ago

  As this accident obviously occurred due to overspeeding- with the trailer not carrying any load.
  Another mad Ghanaian truck driver haas killed...

  As this accident obviously occurred due to overspeeding- with the trailer not carrying any load.
  Another mad Ghanaian truck driver haas killed...

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• mojingles 12 years ago

  Accident indicates the recklessness of our articulator truck drivers and the lax enforcement of traffic regulations in Ghana...as for the reporter at citifmonline, please, a truck does not somersault....in accidents of this n ...
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  Accident indicates the recklessness of our articulator truck drivers and the lax enforcement of traffic regulations in Ghana...as for the reporter at citifmonline, please, a truck does not somersault....in accidents of this nature, simply write, the truck rolled over, or fell on its side....somersault is too far-fetched a word to use in this instance.....

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• Yaw Donkor 12 years ago

  Hi Ghana,
  This information is worthy of noting and serious action taken on it by all and sundry since the disragerd for basic traffic rules leads to fatalities or even death.
  I am a motor rider who use the city's roads for ...
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  Hi Ghana,
  This information is worthy of noting and serious action taken on it by all and sundry since the disragerd for basic traffic rules leads to fatalities or even death.
  I am a motor rider who use the city's roads for various assignments. I have taken time to study how some dirvers, especially the commercial drivers contravene basic traffic regulations and these are some of my findings.
  1. Most cars (private and commercial) do not have functioning break lights. I had to caution as many as eight drivers on the by-pass from Fiesta Royale Hotel to GIMPA junction one evening in traffic. All 8 did not have any of the break lights working. As many as 25 cars had only one of the two break lights working. This calls for Police Intervention.
  2. In recent times,drivers have decided not to indicate with thier traficator lights when they intend to turn onto another road. You ride behind a vehicle and all you see is the dirver turning into an ajooining road without indication. Police, please be up and doing.
  3. On the N1 (George Bush Highway) drivers disregard the use of the rear view mirrors. What I gathered within a spate of 10 mins on the stretch from La Paz traffic light to Awoshie Junction was terrifying. Drivers overspeed when the traffic lights show green and just swerve into other lanes without using their rear view mirriors disregarding which ever vehicle is behind on the other lane. This has resulted in a series of accidents.
  4. Designated bus stops on the newly constructed roads have gone unused in some places. Drivers choose to park on the roads as agianst using the spaces created for the alighting and picking of passengers. Taxi drivers have therefore turned those stops into their car parks to load passengers. A good example is areas around the Accra Mall and at 37 opposite the Maxmart and the Police Church.
  4. Crossing of RED traffic lights is no more an offence in Ghana. People cross the red lights as if that means one should speed instead of stop. The culprits involved are mostly commercial drivers who will even go to the extent of honking behind you if you dare stop when the lights show yellow. Some even insult you for wasting their time. A taxi nearly run over me on the motor bike because I stopped when it showed yellow.
  Countrymen, if these things go unchecked, the carnage on the raods will keep increasing year after year. I am appealing to all to take this issues seriously since it may affect all of us one way or the other.
  Blessed.

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• Koo many 12 years ago

  For a semi- trailer is just not possible for it to somersault !!!
  What happens is that such trucks do roll-over from a jack-knife position.
  I don't blame the reporter,the News Editor is the the mess in the chain of Citi FM ...
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  For a semi- trailer is just not possible for it to somersault !!!
  What happens is that such trucks do roll-over from a jack-knife position.
  I don't blame the reporter,the News Editor is the the mess in the chain of Citi FM's coverage.

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• Martin 12 years ago

  Wrong choice of word. The truck did not somersault, it either flipped over, overturned, or turned over. I hope investigations will reveal how this accident occurred.

  Wrong choice of word. The truck did not somersault, it either flipped over, overturned, or turned over. I hope investigations will reveal how this accident occurred.

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• NN 12 years ago

  THE OVER SPEEDING IS JUST TOO MUCH ON OUR ROADS BY THESE TRUCKS,COME TO THE SPINTEX ROAD AN NOTICE WHAT I'M SAYING. HOW DO BRING THEM TO CHECK? OUR POLICE MUST COME UNTO THE ROADS, NOT TO COLLECT MONEY, BUT KEEP ORDER FROM TH ...
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  THE OVER SPEEDING IS JUST TOO MUCH ON OUR ROADS BY THESE TRUCKS,COME TO THE SPINTEX ROAD AN NOTICE WHAT I'M SAYING. HOW DO BRING THEM TO CHECK? OUR POLICE MUST COME UNTO THE ROADS, NOT TO COLLECT MONEY, BUT KEEP ORDER FROM THESE LAWLESS KILLER DRIVERS. INFACT WE MUST BLAME POLICE FOR SOME OF THESE TRAFFIC OFFENCES, THE POLICE MUST BE ON THE ROADS NOT SITTING IN THEIR OFFICES.

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• EZEKIEL 12 years ago

  You REALLY mean the articulator SOMERSAULTED ????? A NEW olympic discipline ??? How ???????

  You REALLY mean the articulator SOMERSAULTED ????? A NEW olympic discipline ??? How ???????

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• Re; observer 12 years ago

  Speed and ignorance are the cause of most accidents on Ghana roads.Infact no vehicle should to do more than 80km/h on the uninhabited zones of intercity highways and 100km/h on the Motorway.Most of these drivers are of the st ...
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  Speed and ignorance are the cause of most accidents on Ghana roads.Infact no vehicle should to do more than 80km/h on the uninhabited zones of intercity highways and 100km/h on the Motorway.Most of these drivers are of the stupid beleive that speed defines skill.Fools! any monkey can train to start a car and speed off, but driving is about making good decisions.Please train the police well and give them the tools to do their job!

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