{"id":400177,"date":"2018-02-09T19:06:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=400177"},"modified":"2018-02-09T19:10:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T19:10:52","slug":"police-reveal-heap-sand-caused-ebonys-fatal-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/02\/police-reveal-heap-sand-caused-ebonys-fatal-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Police reveal how heap of sand ’caused’ Ebony’s fatal crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ghana Police Service has been giving an account of how\u00a0twenty-year-old Ghanaian dancehall artiste, Ebony Reigns, known in real life as Priscilla Opoku-Kwarteng, died in an accident upon her return from Sunyani in the Brong Ahafo Region to Accra.<\/p>\n
Many Ghanaians have been saddened by the demise of the starlet, but there have been conflicting accounts as to how the fatal crash happened.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”9z4EUOTvKx09Z7KeDIo0sKLhVvaz0Qlb”]According to a report from the Ghana Police Service, Ebony, and two others who were with her in a Jeep, lost their lives on Thursday night, after their car collided with an oncoming VIP bus, when their driver tried to avoid a heap of sand in their lane.<\/p>\n
The police said the sand was meant for the maintenance of the road.<\/p>\n
Whereas the occupants of the bus escaped unhurt, the police in its report said only the driver of the Jeep whose names was given as Chartey Oko Pinehad, aged 29, survived the accident, and is receiving treatment at the Bechem hospital.<\/p>\n
The police also in its report said the remains of Ebony and the two others have been deposited at the Bechem government hospital mortuary for preservation and autopsy.<\/p>\n
The police said the driver of the VIP Bus driver has also been given an \u201cenquiry bail.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ebony, who\u2019s billed to travel to Belgium this Saturday for a show, and later embark on an European tour, was in Sunyani to visit her mother who returned from the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n