Six dead, 22 others injured on Wassa Akropong Bawdie road

Correspondence from Western Region

Six people lives have been claimed in an accident involving three cars at Wassa Asikuma on the Wassa Akropong Bawdie road in the Wassa Amenfi East Municipality.

The cars involved in the accident on Thursday afternoon were; a taxi, sprinter, and a kia truck with registration numbers; GT 6637-20, GT 8721-18, and AC 899-21 respectively.


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According to an eye witness, Emmanuel Nipa, the Kia truck loaded with bags of cocoa from Bawdie heading towards Wassa Akropong which was on top speed had a head-on collision with the sprinter bus which was coming from Wassa Akropong.

The taxi driver who was behind the sprinter upon seeing the crash, tried to save passengers in the taxi and veered off the road into the bush injuring the passengers on board.

The deceased persons include a two-year-old boy and a pastor of the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Wassa Akropong, while twenty-two others have been severely injured.

The dead bodies have been conveyed to the Wassa Akropong Government Hospital morgue, while the injured passengers receiving treatment at the Wassa Akropong hospital and St. Mark hospital at Wassa Akropong.
Information available to Ghanaweb indicates that an excavator operator lost his life in an accident on the same spot last week Tuesday.