Having been deposited at the St. Martin’s de Pores Hospital Morgue, a fatal accident killed a driver who was reported to have failed his brake at the Asitey dangerous curve in the Lower Manya Krobo municipality in the Eastern Region.
A tipper truck with registration number GT 7250 – 19 loaded with limestone from Klo Begero mining site failed its brake and veered into the ditch at Asitey, where the driver who was reportedly said to be going to Tema died instantly.
Even though the driver was alone in the vehicle at the time of the accident, multiple reports including Police sources noted that officials from the company followed the deceased hours later.
For the rescue of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) and the Ghana Police Service, the remain was removed from the badly damaged vehicle.
Police at the Odumase Command says it is yet to commence an investigation into the incident which occurred Monday, 26 December 2022.
Credit to the Daily Graphic, the spot at Asitey, a suburb of Odumase in the Lower Manya Krobo District, has proven deadly over the years claiming many lives and injuring hundreds of others, leaving some maimed.
Between June 15 and July 18, 2019 alone, for instance, there have been at least three reported accidents, resulting in 10 deaths and injuries to 63 people.
The list includes seven deaths and more than 50 injured members of the St Barbara Catholic Church in Akosombo when the bus they were traveling on failed its brake and ended up in the ditch.
Barely five days after that ghastly accident, another accident in the area has killed three persons. The deceased died on the spot when a Kia Truck on which they were travelling crashed into a tree at Ayermesu.
Also n July 18, a tipper truck with registration number GN-9010-18 went off the road and ended up in a drain by the curve. The driver, who was the only person on board, survived.
On October 13 last year, a Science teacher of the Mangoase Senior High School (SHS), Kwame Kyei, died at the Asitey curve when the bus he was travelling on with 56 students allegedly failed its brake at the Asitey curve, which resulted in the vehicle somersaulting and landing in a deep valley near the road.
The students and the driver only sustained varying degrees of injuries and were rushed to the Atua Government Hospital and the St Martin De Porres Hospital.
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