Two persons are said to have died in an accident on the Mankessim-Accra highway on June 20, 2025.
The personnel of the Mankessim Command of the Ghana National Fire Service say they responded to a distress call at 09:16hrs at Ekumfi Essam on the Mankessim-Accra Highway.
“A tanker truck with registration number GT 5408-22 travelling from Mankessim to Accra collided with a Toyota with registration number GB 4146-22 heading in the opposite direction,” they said.
“When GNFS arrived at the scene at 0926hrs, the crew extricated two casualties from the mangled Toyota, who were reported dead at the hospital.
Their bodies have since been deposited at the Roman Hospital Morgue in Mankessim,” the Fire officers said.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation. The type of Toyota vehicle could not be identified due to the damage to the vehicle.
Meanwhile, an accident that occurred on June 19, 2025, on the Cape Coast-Takoradi 19-year-old claimed the life of a 19-year-old.
The accident resulted from a tipper truck loaded with sand ramming into three stationary vehicles waiting to make a U-turn.
A detailed police statement on the accident stated that on June 19, 2025, at about 12:48 hrs, the suspect driver, Bright Essel, aged 29, was in charge of a Donfeng tipper truck with registration number GN 5710-19, loaded with sand from Bronyibima towards the DVLA junction, Cape Coast.
On reaching a section of the road at the University of Cape Coast West Gate on the main Cape Coast-Takoradi-Accra Highway, he veered off his lane and ran over the kerb and in the process crashed into a stationary Nissan Sentra saloon car with registration number CR 1756-12 driven by suspect Kofi Kum, aged 57; a Honda CRV 4×4 with registration number CR 319-20 driven by suspect Anita Ansah, aged 37; and an Apsonic motor tricycle with registration number not yet known ridden by suspect George Ayensu Peters, aged 26, who were observing traffic from the near-side section of the road to join the highway.
