Tema Motorway: Road Crash Claims Six Lives
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Tema Motorway: Road Crash Claims Six Lives
At least six people are feared dead in a road crash involving a sprinter bus and a saloon car on the Accra-Tema motorway on Sunday morning.
Eyewitnesses say both vehicles were heading towards Tema when the accident occurred.
According to them, one of the tyres of the sprinter bus burst and the driver lost control of the steering wheel hitting the saloon car in the process.
The only person onboard the saloon car is said to have escaped unhurt.
The victims of the accident were said to have been rushed to the Tema General hospital by the police patrol team in KIA trucks as no ambulances were available, eyewitnesses said.
“The red car was in front of the trotro. The trotro burst one of its tyres and was trying to control the car but a few moments later the driver lost total control of the car and hit the red car that was beside it. The red car went into the gully between the two motorways. The trotro, on the other hand, somersaulted about three or four times before landing inside the bush on the side of the road. So, I got down and checked on the guy in the red car and realized he had survived so we asked him to go to the hospital. Some onlookers came and tried to pull people out of the trotro which was in the bush. We realized that about six people had died but I cannot give a proper account of the number of those that got injured, but it was very serious,” an eyewitness said.
Another eyewitness said “I presume the driver of the sprinter bus panicked a bit when he burst one of his tyres which led to him crashing into the saloon car in front of him. Some officials of the police MTTD showed about 10 minutes after I got to the scene and they carried the injured and those who were feared dead unto a KIA truck. A lady who was on board another bus identified one of the victims as her sister so she was asked to pack the belongings of the victim and have them taken to the hospital.”
Source: Citinewsroom.com
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