Two persons travelling from Tema to Accra have met their untimely death on the Tema-Accra Motorway opposite Samara Company Limited, the Ghana Fire Service (GNFS) has said.
In a statement, the GNFS said the Motorway Fire Station received the accident call on Wednesday, January 19, 2022at 0531 hours and a Rescue Team was immediately dispatched to the accident scene at 0532 hours.
“On arrival at the accident scene at 0552 hours, it was observed that three vehicles namely a Honda CR-V with registration number GR 3730-10, a Sino Tipper Truck with registration number GN 6708-21 and an Opel Astra with registration number GW 5819-10 had been involved in a bloody accident.
“Two people who were believed to have died were found trapped in the Opel Astra car. The Tipper Truck had fallen on its nearside with its head and one of the front tyres still lying on the bonnet and part of the windscreen of the badly mangled Opel Astra car. The Honda CR-V car was found in a nearby ditch partly damaged on its offside with no one in the car.
“The extrication team checked the Tipper Truck vehicle which was lying on its near side but no casualty was found in it,” the Service said.
The sand in the bucket of the Tipper Truck had poured on the ground as a result of the accident, the Service provided further details.
The Service disclosed that the two trapped motionless bodies in the Opel Astra car were extricated by the Fire Service Rescuers.
“Pulse assessment on the two motionless persons in the Opel Astra car by the Rescuers suggested they might have died. Thus, the two motionless bodies were handed over to the Motor Transport and Traffic Directorate (MTTD) of the Police Service to be transported to the Tema General Hospital for further investigation,” the Service said.
The Road Traffic Collision Team managed to remove the fallen head of the Sino Tipper Truck vehicle from the badly mangled Opel Astra's bonnet and front driver and passenger compartment to make way for the extrication of the two trapped motionless bodies onboard.
The Extrication team from the Fire Service ensured that the mangled vehicles posing as a hazard were cleared off the road to forestall another vehicle running into them.