Last Thursday, nine persons, including a one-year-old child died while 20 others were injured after a VIP bus heading towards Accra collided with a cargo truck.

In December 2017, another accident on that stretch also resulted in the death of four people.

The Executive Director of the National Road Safety Commission, May Obiri-Yeboah explained to Citi News that sensitisation will be key to reducing the spate of crashes.

She also urged all road users “to be cautious especially when you are approaching or leaving the town.”

“We will have to continue the education with operators and drivers especially on good flat roads, the statistics show clearly that accidents normally will happen on straight roads and a lot of it is attributed to speeding… With the speeding issue, which is something we have been doing, we will continue the campaign on. I am sure that if we do that, it will help,” Mrs. Obiri-Yeboah said.

In the case of the most recent accident near Teacher Mante, the Kraboa-Coaltar District Police Commander, DSP Charles Ahiamale said he could not immediately explain how the accident occurred.

He, however, indicated the road on which these accidents have happened was in good condition.

“You cannot see anything, there is no pothole [on the road], there is no meandering of the road here, the road is very straight the road is smooth, and so you cannot see why there is always an accident on this particular lane,” he said.

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The accident occurred when A VIP bus heading towards Accra with registration number GE 2393 10, and a cargo truck, registered GT 1327 10, heading towards Kumasi, collided head-on.

The accident, which happened around 4:30 pm today [Thursday], had a one and half-year-old child among the dead.

Speaking to Citi News, the Kraboa-Coaltar District Police Commander, DSP Charles Ahiamale, who confirmed the incident, said they could not immediately confirm the number of persons in the two cars.

“It happened this evening about 4:30 pm, nine confirmed dead, including one and half year old child, about twenty[20] are at the hospital, we cleared the road, the drivers are also included in the injury, ”he said.

DSP Charles Ahiamale, said he could not immediately explain how the accident occurred.

“You cannot see anything, there is no pothole [On the road], there is no meandering of the road here, the road is very straight the road is smooth, and so you cannot see why there is always an accident on this particular lane,” he said.

708 person killed in road accidents 

Statistics released by the National Road Safety Commission (NRSC) indicates that, 708 persons died from 4,049 road accidents as of April 2017.

Out of the figure, 3,983 persons sustained various degrees of injury, with 1,199 pedestrian knockdowns involving 6,468 vehicles and 1,289 motorbikes.

David Osafo Adonteng, the Director of Planning and Programming at the NRSC, disclosed this at a media briefing at the 2017 West Africa Road Safety Organisation Day, and the Fourth United Nations Global Road Safety Week in Accra.

According to the Commission, it has identified over-speeding as a major cause of accidents in the country, being responsible for over 60% of them.

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According to the Ayensuano District Police Commander, DSP Charles Ahiamale, the truck was carrying a container loaded with logs from Kumasi to Accra.

Speaking to Citi News, DSP Charles Ahiamale said container fell off the truck on the outskirts of Teacher-Mante causing havoc as the first vehicle, a Toyota Land Cruiser run into it.

This first crash did not result in any significant casualties, according to indications from police.

“Police got to the scene [after the first crash] and made frantic efforts to get assistance from the Road Safety Commission and the Ghana Fire Service to assist them with a tow truck to remove the container from the road.”

But at 2 am on Sunday morning, the container was still on the road and the second vehicle, a Toyota minibus, also run into it “after ignoring police signals to stop,” DSP Ahiamale said

“The driver of the minibus and the passengers were injured. We conveyed them to the Nsawam Government Hospital but they were pronounced dead this morning – five males and one female.”

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