Bridget Otoo escapes car snatching syndicate on Tema motorway

Ghanaian broadcast journalist, Bridget Otoo on Sunday, March 19, 2023, managed to escape from car snatching syndicates on the Tema motorway.

Sharing her ordeal on the micro-blogging site - Twitter, the broadcast journalist noted that the suspects, numbered three were in a black Hyundai Elantra.

She added that one of the suspects had disguised himself as a mechanic.

He pointed out that she would have lost her car to the syndicates if not for her niece who was in the car.

Bridget Otoo entreated motorists plying the Tema motorway to be careful.

“I just escaped a car snatching syndicate on the motorway … It didn’t even occur to me they were trying to steal the car. Maybe my niece being in the car saved me," part of her post read.

“Black Hyundai Elantra with 3 guys, one is dressed as a mechanic. Please be careful. Will share story later,” it tweeted.

Bridget Otoo’s experience adds up to the number of criminal activities which has occurred on the Tema motorway.

In recent times, a lady escaped from the hands of a machete-wielding thief who wanted to snatch her bag on the Tema motorway. The incident was captured on a CCTV camera.

Another on screen personality, Kobby Spiky Nkrumah on one occasion also shared his experience of how people who pretended to be helping him fix his broken car snatched his hand bag with thousands of cedis along with his phone on the motorway.

Read Bridget Otoo's tweet below;

I just escaped a car snatching syndicate on the motorway … It didn’t even occur to me they were trying to steal the car. Maybe my niece being in the car saved me. Black Hyundai Elantra with 3 guys, one is dressed as a mechanic. Please be careful. Will share story later

— #ReadyWithJM???? (@Bridget_Otoo) March 19, 2023

But the people in the Black Hyundai kept signaling, I felt if I didn’t stop I might have an accident so I drove a bit and parked close to a vulcanizer. The black Hyundai parked behind me first and it was uncomfortable so I moved drove a bit and parked in front of the Vulcanizer

— #ReadyWithJM???? (@Bridget_Otoo) March 19, 2023

out with that sticky black substance on his hands I asked him how he could have seen that since we were both driving at top speed on the motorway. At this point I honestly don’t know how the black Hyundai came to park next to mine…. Remember the third person didn’t get down.

— #ReadyWithJM???? (@Bridget_Otoo) March 19, 2023

call my mechanic to look at it and they said I shouldn’t worry, I should rather drive and follow them to their mechanic shop to fix it. I sat in the car and told them I was Okay. I called my sister and narrated everything to her and she said that’s how the car snatching

— #ReadyWithJM???? (@Bridget_Otoo) March 19, 2023

described as “sealant” to scare me to think there was a leakage. I was lucky today. Maybe my niece being present saved us both. Please don’t be stupid like me when you are stopped on the motorway. Or if you are not sure pls get closer to a place with loads of people.

— #ReadyWithJM???? (@Bridget_Otoo) March 19, 2023

In my case, I drove to a Vulcanizer with about 3 people there. FYI the three guys were in a black Hyundai Elantra. Unfortunately I don’t have their number. But one is wearing a long beard in a black Tshirt & Jeans & one dressed as a mechanic is short and slim. Let’s all be safe.

— #ReadyWithJM???? (@Bridget_Otoo) March 19, 2023

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