19 PERISH IN ACCIDENT (1B)

Story: Joe Okyere, Cape Coast

A NASTY dawn accident in which 19 passengers were killed occurred at Aduagyei, near Elmina, when a 38-seater Mercedes Benz bus was involved in a head-on collision with an articulated truck on the Takoradi-Cape Coast highway.
The incident was said to have occurred at between 12 midnight and 1 a.m. yesterday and 16 of the passengers died instantly, while three others also reportedly died later at the Central Regional Hospital in Cape Coast.
Fourteen other passengers are on admission at the same hospital for various injuries they sustained.
A one-year-old boy who survived the accident is yet to be identified. None of the survivors had claimed the boy, thus raising the suspicion that whoever was travelling with him might have perished.
The bodies of the deceased have been deposited at the morgue in the hospital and are yet to be identified.
According to the driver of the articulated truck, with registration number AS 6091 N, Yusif might have perished.
The bodies of the deceased have been deposited at the morgue in the hospital and are yet to be identified.
According to the driver of the articulated truck, with registration number AS 6091 N, Yusif Tanko, the driver of the Mercedes Benz bus, with registration number GR 8612 E and loaded with passengers from Takoradi, might have burst a tyre and veered into his lane.
The driver of the bus is believed to be among the dead.
The Central Regional Minister, Mrs Ama Benyiwa-Doe, visited the injured at the hospital and donated GH¢5,000 for their upkeep.
She expressed her condolences to the bereaved families and wished the injured speedy recovery.