The driver, Mark Mireku, was facing charges of manslaughter and was sentenced to one year in prison by the Cape Coast Circuit court.

He was jailed on 34 counts of dangerous driving and banned from operating as a commercial driver for life.

Mr Mireku has also been fined GH¢17,280 or will, in default, serve jail time on 18 counts of causing harm.

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Mr Mireku, 45, who was trying to over-take another vehicle, collided with an oncoming bus, killing 34 persons at Dompoase on the Accra-Elmina Highway in the Central region on January 14, 2020.

Director in Charge of Operations, Monitoring and Compliance, Kwame Koduah said the Authority is happy about the judgement by the court.

“We at the Authority are extremely happy that the law establishment will make a serious statement such as this to serve as deterrent to others,” he said.

He also asked other courts to learn from the development, adding that motorists should know that given a license to drive is a privilege and not a right.

According to him, if they go contrary to protecting the lives of passengers, they should have their licences revoked and be jailed just as it has happened to Mr Mireku.

The surviving driver was found guilty of negligence and dangerous driving resulting in the accident that took place in the first week of January, 2020.

He was further fined a total amount of GH¢ 17,280. In default, he will serve 12 years in jail term on 18 counts each of negligently causing harm.

According to the Ghana Police Service, the court additionally banned him from operating as a commercial driver for life. Charges of manslaughter are also pending against him at the High Court.

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The commercial driver was in charge of the registered Hyundai bus when it crashed head-on with another bus on 14th January 2020 on the Dompoase stretch of the Elmina-Komenda section of an inter-city highway.

Witnesses accused Mr Mireku of having tried to overtake another vehicle but failed leading to the gory accident.

The fatalities included an eight-month-old baby and her parents. In at least one case, an entire nuclear family was nearly wiped in the accident.

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The deceased were laid to rest at the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC) cemetery at Akropong-Akuapem in the Eastern region after a solemn ceremony.

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The three Isaac Ansah Awuku, his wife Martha Ninson and their 8-month-old baby, Otempa Adepa died in the accident which occurred on the night of Tuesday, January 20, 2020 while travelling with their two other children.

Family members of after the tragic accident said they will need the help of a psychologist before they can break the news of their death to the ten and seven year old children who survived the accident that killed 34 people.

A survivor of the Dompoase-Komenda accident has given a chilling account of the accident that took place in the early hours of Tuesday morning to claim the lives of some 35 people.

Recounting what happened that fateful Tuesday night, the survivor, Issah Yayeh, said even before help could arrive for the distressed passengers, all they could do was to helplessly lie on the road.

As fate will have it for some of them, however, another speeding vehicle ran over the distressed passengers who were lying on the road, killing some on the spot.

Mr Yayeh, who sells second-hand bags for a living said he was travelling from Elubo, a border crossing between Ghana and Cote D’Ivoire, to Accra when the unfortunate incident happened at Dampoase Junction.

According to him, even though he was not asleep when the incident happened, he did not see how the accident happened because it occurred so quickly.

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“I didn’t see anything; in fact, I can’t explain what exactly happened. My two friends who were both asleep and I were seated at the back when all I heard was a loud crash between our bus and another,” he said on Adom FMs morning show Dwaso Nsem on Wednesday.

Overwhelmed by his escape from death, Mr. Yayeh who is married with seven children expressed gratitude to God for saving his life.

Listen to audio above for more of his narration.

Source: Adomonline.com | Dorcas Abedu-Kennedy

The deceased, identified as Hajia Adiatu Abubakar, was the NPP’s financial secretary at the Kojokrom constituency in the Western region.

Railways Minister, Joe Ghartey, described the deceased as a great asset to the party and the nation at large.

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According to him, he was on the phone with Hajia prior to the gory accident.

Mr Ghartey, speaking in an interview with Adom News, said he had to ask permission to be absent from a Cabinet meeting to visit the Cape Coast mortuary where the body was.

The deceased’s daughter, mourning her mother, said they have lost a great pillar in their lives and their prayer is that the Lord forgives her sins so she finds rest in the bosom of the Lord.

Thirty-four people died with about 54 hospitalised after an intercity bus with registration number GR 5704-18 collided head-on with another bus with registration number GN 3780-10 at Dompoase near Elmina in the Central Region.

The crash occurred when a vehicle moving from Accra towards Takoradi attempted to overtake a vehicle ahead in a sharp curve and collided with an oncoming vehicle from Takoradi heading to Accra.