ACCIDENT CLAIMS 22 PERSONS, MANY OTHER CRITICALLY INJURED

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Twenty –two persons have been killed with nine others with various degrees of injury in a road accident at Nobewam on the Kumasi-Konongo highway in the Ashanti region. 

 The number of casualties were in two car crashes at the same place and involved different commercial vehicles ramming into a stationary Man Diesel timber truck with registration number GT 874 H parked along the road. 

A member of the rescue team which attended to the emergency situation told our Correspondent in Kumasi that the first commercial car to ram into the timber truck was a Mercedes Benz Bus with registration number AW 5174-13 at about 7.45 pm yesterday, Thu, June 30. 

According to the source, five of the passengers on board the vehicle which was believed to be traveling from Konongo towards the Kumasi direction died on the spot. 

The second accident involving another Mercedes Benz Sprinter with registration number GY 2520-13 also occurred at the same scene at about 4 am today. 

Thirteen of the passengers on board that vehicles died on the spot with six others sustaining injuries. 

The timber car loaded with timber logs, is said to have stopped in one of the three lanes at that portion of the highways yesterday and had been left unattended to leading to the accidents. 

The source said the injured have been sent for emergency medical care at the Komfo Anokye Teaching and the Konongo Government Hospitals. 

The dead have also been deposited at the Steward Mortuary, a private facility at Yawkwei in the Asante Akyem Central Municipality.  

The source said family members have started calling on the mobile phones of their respective relatives involved for confirmation of the incident thereby drawing a large crowd to the scene and the hospitals where the injured have been sent for medicare. 

Meanwhile, the Konongo Divisional Police have began steps to tow away the stationary timber truck and to clear the remnant of the accident.

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