{"id":299089,"date":"2017-03-05T14:27:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T14:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=299089"},"modified":"2017-03-05T14:27:41","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T14:27:41","slug":"traders-escape-death-after-truck-crash-into-wares-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=299089","title":{"rendered":"Traders escape death after truck crash into wares [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some porridge and coconut sellers at Sapeiman Junction in Accra, narrowly escaped death on Sunday, when two articulated trucks zoomed into their wares in a horrific crash.<\/p>\n<p>One of the articulated truck drivers who spoke to <strong>Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Nana Boakye Yiadom, stated\u00a0that he was coming from the Kumasi-Accra end of the stretch and was about negotiating a curve to Sapeiman, when the other articulated truck run into him, dragging his vehicle over a 50-metre stretch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299091 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Traders-escape-death-at-Sapeiman-2.jpg\" alt=\"traders-escape-death-at-sapeiman-2\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299092 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Traders-escape-death-at-Sapeiman-3.jpg\" alt=\"traders-escape-death-at-sapeiman-3\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Though no casualties were recorded, he explained that his conductor sustained injuries after falling off the heaps of bags of charcoal in the truck.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI was coming from the toll booth from the Kumasi road and I wanted to negotiate to Sapeiman, but because of the speed at which the other driver was driving, he could not apply brakes. His breaks failed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose selling around, realizing we were going to crash into them, run for their lives. If they had not done that, I would have killed them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-299093\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Traders-escape-death-at-Sapeiman-4.jpg\" alt=\"traders-escape-death-at-sapeiman-4\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299094 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Traders-escape-death-at-Sapeiman-5.jpg\" alt=\"traders-escape-death-at-sapeiman-5\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-299090 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Traders-escape-death-at-Sapeiman-1.jpg\" alt=\"traders-escape-death-at-sapeiman-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Zoe Abu-Baidoo\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ZBaidoo\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @ZBaidoo<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some porridge and coconut sellers at Sapeiman Junction in Accra, narrowly escaped death on Sunday, when two articulated trucks zoomed into their wares in a horrific crash. One of the articulated truck drivers who spoke to Citi News\u2019 Nana Boakye Yiadom, stated\u00a0that he was coming from the Kumasi-Accra end of the stretch and was about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[737,3],"class_list":["post-299089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-accident","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}