Sixteen passengers are feared dead and more than 40 others were injured in an accident that occurred between a tanker and a Yutong bus, Tuesday dawn at Gomoa Okyereko on the Cape Coast highway, Accra, Ghana.
The victims have been conveyed to the Winneba Trauma Hospital. It was reported that on getting to the hospital, the 16th patient passed away shortly after.
Effutu Municipal Hospital and the Trauma and Specialist Hospital, both in Winneba, are treating forty more people who suffered injuries of varying degrees.
At the scene, DO III Mr. Kwesi Hughes of the Ghana National Fire Service’s Effutu Municipal Directorate told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that they had received a distress call at 05:14 about an accident at Gomoa Okyereko, close to Winneba junction.
He claimed that upon their arrival at the scene, the service discovered that the collision involved two vehicles from Cape Coast: a Yutong bus with the registration number CR-5866-L from Cape Coast carrying Liberian passengers in the direction of Liberia Camp, and a petrol tanker with the registration number WR-2063-10 and three Cape Coast residents aboard.
The bus driver apparently veered off his lane and collided head-on with the tanker, which was travelling in the opposite direction, upon reaching a section of the road at Okyereko, according to DO III Hughes.
He claimed that it took three hours to free everyone—alive and dead—trapped inside both vehicles.
The bodies of some of the victims were severed.
For preservation and identification, the bodies of the deceased have been placed at the Trauma Hospital.
