Six injured in Tema motorway accident

An injured passenger at the hospital

SIX people sustained  injuries  after a Ford bus in which they were travelling was hit by an articulated truck on the Accra Tema Motorway.

Among the injured were a 70-year-old woman who is still in an unconscious state at the Tema General Hospital.

The Aflao bound bus, with registration number GS 6813 Y, carrying 10 passengers on board, was hit by the articulated truck, with registration number GR 2028 E, around 9:15 p.m., near the Kingsway International Christian Centre, some 50 metres from the Accra Abattoir Limited.

The injured, who were rushed to the Tema General Hospital (TGH), are still receiving treatment.
The incident created a heavy traffic build-up on the motorway for over two hours.

Eye witnesses said the unidentified old woman was pulled from the mangled vehicle after onlookers managed to disentangle the van from the articulated truck.

They told the Daily Graphic that a salon vehicle  which was travelling at top speed abruptly  veered into the inner lane ahead of the van, and hastily applied its brake to avoid running into a vehicle ahead of it.

The incident, they said, forced the driver of the van, Mr David Ahiale, off  the inner lane  in his attempt to avoid  hitting the salon car from behind.

The articulator truck, they said, unexpectedly smashed into the van from the passenger side and dragged it along the route, injuring the passengers in the process.

The driver of the bus, Mr Ahiale, who escaped unhurt, told the Daily Graphic that he was returning to Aflao after purchasing an engine at Abbosey Okai when the accident occurred.

SOURCE: Della Russel Ocloo, Daily Graphic, Thur July 19, 2012