{"id":56530,"date":"2014-10-15T07:36:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T07:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=56530"},"modified":"2014-10-15T07:38:07","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T07:38:07","slug":"one-dead-16-others-injured-in-kasoa-accident-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=56530","title":{"rendered":"One dead, 16 others injured in Weija accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person has been reported dead and 16 others have sustained various degrees of injuries when a passenger bus they were travelling on , got involved in an accident on\u00a0the Kasoa-Weija road on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG-20141015-WA00081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56533\" alt=\"IMG-20141015-WA0008\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG-20141015-WA00081.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG-20141015-WA00081.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG-20141015-WA00081-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG-20141015-WA00081-1024x767.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fire service personnel at the scene told<b>\u00a0<\/b><strong>Citi News<\/strong><b>\u00a0<\/b>reporter Franklyn Badu that the driver of the Mercedes Benz bus was negotiating a U-turn at the Weija junction when he saw a tipper truck approaching with speed.<\/p>\n<p>Fearing a collision, the passenger bus driver abruptly slammed on his breaks, causing the vehicle to somersault.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG-20141015-WA00061.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56532\" alt=\"IMG-20141015-WA0006\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG-20141015-WA00061.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG-20141015-WA00061.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG-20141015-WA00061-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG-20141015-WA00061-1024x767.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG-20141015-WA00021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-56529\" alt=\"IMG-20141015-WA0002\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG-20141015-WA00021.jpg\" width=\"1280\" height=\"959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG-20141015-WA00021.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG-20141015-WA00021-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMG-20141015-WA00021-1024x767.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The injured were rushed to nearby hospitals and clinics for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nana Boakye-Yiadom\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One person has been reported dead and 16 others have sustained various degrees of injuries when a passenger bus they were travelling on , got involved in an accident on\u00a0the Kasoa-Weija road on Wednesday morning. Fire service personnel at the scene told\u00a0Citi News\u00a0reporter Franklyn Badu that the driver of the Mercedes Benz bus was negotiating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":56531,"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":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-56530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56530","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}