{"id":360803,"date":"2017-10-10T18:11:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T18:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=360803"},"modified":"2017-10-10T18:11:48","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T18:11:48","slug":"death-toll-in-suhum-accident-rises-to-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=360803","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in Suhum accident rises to 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five persons have been confirmed dead following a \u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/10\/3-dead-10-in-critical-condition-after-suhum-accident\/\">head-on collision <\/a><\/strong><\/span>between two vehicles at Kyekyere, a village close to Suhum in the Eastern Region.<\/p>\n<p>About 15 others who sustained varying degrees of injury are currently on admission at various hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The accident, involved a vehicle traveling from Accra to Koforid, and a Kumasi-Accra bound vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The Eastern Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Ebenezer Tetteh, who confirmed the incident to\u00a0<strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0on Tuesday, lamented the accident was avoidable, and said the police &#8220;have begun investigations to ascertain all the facts, and efforts are being made to tow the accident vehicles to the station to assist investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cYesterday [Monday] at about\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_414964513\"><span class=\"aQJ\">8:00<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in the evening, a suspect driver, Osei Asante, was in charge of a Toyota Hiace Bus with registration number ER 1058-16 from Kasoa to Koforidua, with passengers on board, and upon reaching a village called Kyekyewere near Suhum, he tried overtaking a leading vehicle and in the process his car veered onto the opposite lane and crashed into the passenger side of a Sprinter bus with registration number AW 1329-14, which also had passengers on board, and was heading to Accra from Kumasi\u201d ASP Ebenezer Tetteh\u00a0narrated.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He also advised passengers to call drivers to order when they over-speed and\u00a0flout driving regulations.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">By: Neil Nii Amatey Kanarku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five persons have been confirmed dead following a \u00a0head-on collision between two vehicles at Kyekyere, a village close to Suhum in the Eastern Region. About 15 others who sustained varying degrees of injury are currently on admission at various hospitals. The accident, involved a vehicle traveling from Accra to Koforid, and a Kumasi-Accra bound vehicle. [&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":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360803","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=360803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}