Three people were killed after a collision involving a trailer and a mini truck carrying building materials caught fire on the Kumasi-Techiman highway, Asaase News has gathered.
The accident occurred around 8 p.m. Monday and caused a heavy traffic blockade, compounded by another crash reported earlier on Tuesday at Boamang in the Afigya Kwabre North District of the Ashanti Region.
Yesterday’s crash involved a saloon car, a trailer (GR-1357-W), and a mini truck transporting building materials. Eyewitnesses said occupants of the mini truck were travelling from Kumasi to Offinso when the incident occurred.
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Kwame Yaro, the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) director for Afigya Kwabre North, who has been providing updates to reporters says emergency services were called in and worked with local residents to clear the road.
Yaro linked the accident to reckless driving by heavy-duty truck drivers and appealed to road safety authorities to intensify enforcement.
“The way the trucks speed is very terrible. If you confront them, they can become violent,” he said. “Since last week and this week, nine people have died because of reckless driving. This is very sad.”
Road safety officials were not immediately available for comment.
In 2020 the nation was thrown into grief when eight juvenile players were tragically killed in a horrific road accident at that same spot.
Reports say, the Offinso-based Africa Vision Soccer Academy team was returning from a district colt football registration exercise at Afrancho, a suburb of Kumasi, when the bus on which they were traveling lost control, skidded off the road and plunged into the River Offin.
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