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Five persons died while five others sustained serious injuries in an accident which occurred at about 4 a.m. today (Friday) at Abeka, in Accra when they were returning home after a socialisation event.
The accident occured when a Toyota Tundra with registration number GR 2938 on which they were travelling hit an electricity pole and somersaulted several times.
The driver of the vehicle was said to have attempted to drive past two vehicles parked on opposite sides of the road but in the process lost control of the car which hit a light pole and somersaulted.
The dead have been identified as Ishmael Sefiaru, Razak Haruna , Zakari Suleiman, Nazar Awudu and Mohammed Abass. Their bodies have been deposited at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital mortuary awaiting autopsy.
The injured, Ibrahim Inusa, Emmanuel Aggrey, Taifique Sani and Iddris Yusif, are on admission at the hospital.
Two of the victims , Sani and Aggrey told the Daily Graphic on their hospital bed that they had gone to Karldorf, a popular drinking spot and entertainment centre at Abeka to drink but on their way back to Fadama, they saw two vehicles parked on opposite sides of the road.
They said in an attempt to drive between them, the driver of the Toyota Tundra lost control, hit the light pole, the shed of a food vendor, some shops nearby and somersaulted.
They said because the driver of the Tunsdra was speeding, he easily lost control and as some of those on board were sitting in the bucket of the truck, they were thrown out when the vehicle somersaulted with some landing in a manhole pit along the road.
They added that the vehicle was overloaded.
According to Muhammed Sani, a resident of Abeka Free Pipe, he heard a scream while in the bathroom and quickly came out to see what was going on only to find four of the victims in the manhole pit beside his house.
He added that the two were dead while two were trying to come out friom the pit.
The others, he added, were lying on the street.
The badly damaged vehicle has been taken to the Tesano Police Station.
A Deputy Superintendent of Police at the Tesano Polioce Station said the police would investigate the accident and advised all drivers especially the youth to avoid speeding and overloading to reduce accidents on the road.
In another development, two passengers were killed on the spot and a number of others sustained various degrees of injury when a 207 Mercedes Benz bus crashed into a truck near the KNUST Police Station on the Kumasi-Ejisu road yesterday, writes Kwame Asare Boadu, Kumasi.
The dead were not immediately identified but their remains have been sent to the morgue while police investigations continue.
The injured persons were rushed to various health facilities for medical attention.
An eyewitness told the Daily Graphic that the accident occurred about 5.45 a.m. when the weather was foggy.
According to him, the speeding 207 bus was overtaking another vehicle when it ran into the fully loaded moving truck.
Police and Fire personnel rushed to the scene to help save lives but they had a hectic time trying to cut through the mangled bus to remove some of the trapped occupants.
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