Two people have been burnt to death as a taxi collided head-on with a fuel tanker at Asiakwa Junction in the Eastern region.
The fuel tanker was reportedly travelling from Accra to Kumasi.
Information gathered indicates that the tanker, nearing the Asiakwa Junction on the main Accra Kumasi Highway, experienced brake failure.
In an attempt by the driver to control the situation, the tanker veered onto the lane of vehicles coming towards Accra.
A taxi driver, close to the junction, tried to avoid the rolling tanker but unfortunately got trapped underneath it.
Within moments, the spillage fuel from the tanker ignited, incinerating both the taxi and the tanker beyond recognition.
Fortunately, two passengers in the taxi managed to escape shortly after the collision, before the vehicle was engulfed in flames.
The taxi driver whose identity is yet to be known, was burnt to death.
A Kia truck which was also approaching the Pacific fuel station from the Asiakwa Junction failing to observe traffic regulations also collided with the tanker which was in flames.
The driver of the Kia truck and his mate both sustained head injuries.
But the mate reportedly died shortly upon arrival at the Osiem Saviour Memorial Hospital.
One of the passengers who managed to get out of the taxi shared his ordeal.
“I tried pulling him [the taxi driver] out, but I could not, and the fire had already started blazing. I would have also burnt because I did all I could to bring him out because he was not dead. There were two people and I had pulled one out and I was trying to pull the other out,” he bemoaned.
Police officers were at the scene investigating the incident as of the time of filing this report.
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