A police officer, known as Sergeant Lambert Kumbusoon, has tragically lost his life in a road accident at Atortorkorpe in the Ada East District of the Greater Accra Region.
Eyewitnesses characterised the event as abrupt and unsettling.
According to an eyewitness account, the accident transpired when two vehicles were overtaking one another, while the deceased, who was riding a motorbike, also attempted to overtake.
“There was a parked motorbike by the roadside, but the officer did not notice it. He ran into it, and the impact threw him onto the road, where one of the speeding vehicles ran over him,” the eyewitness said.
Chief Superintendent Lovelace Kofi Glago, the Ada District Police Commander, confirmed the occurrence.
He stated that the police received a distress call around 8:30 pm on Wednesday, April 08, 2026, indicating that a Kia Rhino truck had struck a police officer at Atortorkorpe.
He elaborated that a police team was promptly dispatched to the location, where the victim was identified as an officer who had recently been transferred from the Ada Criminal Investigation Department at the Divisional Command in Kasseh to Kpone.
Chief Superintendent Glago further mentioned that enquiries at the Big Ada Police Station indicated that a driver had turned himself in and was currently in police custody, aiding with the investigations.
He noted that the victim was taken to the Ada East District Hospital but was declared dead upon arrival, and the body has since been placed in the facility’s mortuary.
According to him, the Divisional Command has instructed that the body be moved to the Police Hospital Mortuary in Accra for preservation and autopsy.
He remarked that the precise cause of the accident has yet to be established.
“We cannot immediately establish what exactly happened or who was at fault; investigations are ongoing,” he said.
