[ 2011-04-21 ]

11 perish in Winneba accident
Eleven people were killed when a Nissan Urvan bus
collided with a Nissan Caravan near Essuerkyir on
the Winneba-Mankessim road on Monday night as the
nation gears up for Easter.

Ten of them, including the driver of the Nissan
caravan died on the spot while the eleventh person
died on admission at the Central Regional
Hospital.

Three others are on admission at the Central
Regional and the Saltpond hospitals while two were
treated and discharged. Those on admission have
been identified as Christina Kossi from Togo,
Christopher Gyan and Isaac Quansah.

It took the combined effort of the personnel of
the Ghana National Fire Service and the police to
remove the victims from the mangled vehicles.

The accident occurred just hours after the Central
Regional Police and the National Road Safety
Commission had mounted a road safety campaign to
prevent road accident during and after the Easter
festivities.

Briefing the Ghanaian Times, the Mfantsiman
District Police Commander, Superintendent Emmanuel
Narh-Odonkor, said the driver of the Urvan bus
travelling from Accra to Cape Coast was attempting
to overtake an articulated truck when it collided
with the Nissan Caravan bus which was from
Mankesim to Saltpond.

Superintendent Narh-Odonkor said, the driver of
the Urvan bus, Gambo Haruna, hit the side of the
truck and lost control of his vehicle before
running into the oncoming vehicle.

The bodies of the dead have been deposited at the
Central Regional Hospital Mortuary.

Source - Ghanaian Times

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