Three accidents near Okyereko in Five Days

Winneba (C/R), July 27, GNA - Seven people received various degrees of injuries when two vehicles on which they were travelling got involved in an accident at Gomoa Adawukwa near Gomoa Okyereko on Sunday. No deaths have yet been reported. A police spokesman for Effutu Municipal police Command, briefing newsmen in Winneba on Sunday, said an unregistered Toyota Salon car which was heading towards Cape Coast collided head-on with a Golf Salon car that was coming from the opposite direction of the road. The police source said all the seven persons on the two vehicles were seriously injured and were receiving treatment at the Winneba Government hospital.

The Police said they were not able to get the names of the victims because doctors and nurses at the hospital were busily attending to them.

In another development, two Cargo Truck drivers escaped unhurt when their trucks were involved in a fatal accident on Saturday at a spot near Gomoa Okyereko. Shaban Hamidu and Erskine Brown are however helping the Winneba Police in their investigations. According to the police this is the third accidents within five days in the same area.

The first one occurred last Thursday when two family members were killed and two others seriously injured when the private car on which they were travelling from Takoradi to Accra was involved in an accident near Gomoa Okyereko.