One dead, 15 injured in another Kintampo accident
A fatal accident on the Kintampo-Techiman highway has left one person dead and fifteen others with life-threatening injuries.
The accident involved a Toyota Hiace Bus with registration number AS 8030-20.
The vehicle which had seventeen (17) occupants including the driver were traveling from Techiman to Tatale in the Northern Region.
According to the survivors, the driver was speeding when the accident occurred.
They said upon reaching the Amomankwanta and Krutakyi stretch which is an accident-prone zone, the rear tyre of the bus burst, causing the driver to lose control of the vehicle.
The vehicle then somersaulted and crashed into the side of the road.
A passenger, Alhassan Abdulmutil who sustained head and spine injuries said “We all know that it was the driver’s fault. He started with high speed and could overtake two to three cars at a time. Initially, when we came out of the Techiman station, I alerted the driver that his back tyre was not good, so he stopped on the way to pump it. We didn’t know whether it was the tyre or something else but before we knew, we were somersaulting”.
The injured passengers have been sent to the Holy Family Hospital in Techiman and the Jema Hospital for treatment.
The body of the deceased, who was a 34-year-old unidentified woman has been deposited at the Jema morgue.
Previous accidents
The Kintampo road has been identified as one of the accident hotspots in the country.
It has claimed hundreds of lives and maimed several others over the years.
In March 2020, at least 60 people died when two buses were involved in a head-on collision on the Kintampo-Tamale highway in the Bono East Region
Some of the victims were burnt to death.
A police officer in August 2020, met his untimely death when a DAF cargo truck with registration number 11 JP 9534 fell on him.
Sgt Solomon Amuure, 42, was on official duty when the incident occurred.
Another accident in September this year claimed eight lives Tuobodom on the Techiman-Kintampo highway.
The accident involves a Mercedes Benz truck with the registration number AS 9554G and a taxi cab with the registration number BA 1356 P.
The driver of the truck reportedly lost control and veered into the lane of the oncoming taxi cab resulting in the collision.
The National Democratic Congress’ Bono East Deputy Regional Youth Organiser, Isaac Kojo Nsiah, died in a bloody crash on the same highway.
Reports had it that he was on the pick-truck with three others who survived the carnage after their vehicle collided with an articulator truck loaded with fertilizer.
His death came barely two months to the general elections.
He died in October 2020.