An articulated truck driver has been reported dead in an accident between Kintampo and Babatokuma on the Kintampo-Tamale highway.

An occupant, Afia Oforiwaa, who was also trapped for several hours, is in critical condition and on admission at the Kintampo Government Hospital.

The accident occurred in the early hours of Thursday.

It involved a vehicle with registration number GS 7510-18 which was transporting steel pipes.

The Kintampo MTTD commander, ASP Ernest Donyina Nyarko, told Adom News the cause of the accident is yet to be established.

The Fire Service personnel who responded to the accident hired a taxi since their fire tender had been out of commission for several months.

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About 22 people were killed in the ghastly accident with one more death recorded at the hospital, bringing the toll to 23 and scores injured.

Some families have begun trooping to the Kintampo Morgue and the hospital to identify their relatives.

So far, 14 deceased persons have been identified by their relatives with several of the surviving victims referred to the Tamale Teaching Hospital.

Some families are also still trying to locate their relatives either at the hospital or the morgue while about seven of the survivors are still on admission at Kintampo.

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About 11 with various degrees of injuries are on referral to the Tamale Teaching Hospital and three others who are in critical condition including a student and child yet to be identified waiting for signals from Tamale Teaching Hospital.

The accident is said to have occurred on Tuesday evening.

The three were traveling from Kumasi to Tamale in a Toyota Land Cruiser, GR 5031 U.

The vehicle burst its tyre and veered off the road to hit a tree by the roadside which trapped them for quite a while before GNFS could attempt to rescue them.

The victims have been identified as Staff of Obuasi Gold mines, who were travelling from Obuasi to Tamale.

The accident occurred when the car they were travelling in veered off the road and hit a tree resulting in the instant death of two men.

The third victim, a female sustained severe injuries and is currently responding to treatment at the Kintampo Government Hospital where the dead bodies have also been deposited.

The driver, Mustapha and his brother, Emmerana Alhassan, 20, were said to be transporting a container in their trailer when they fell into a ditch near the Kintampo waterfall.

According to the driver, he was making way for a speeding vehicle behind him when he lost control of the steering wheel and plunged into the bushes.

The incident, which happened at 9:am yesterday, saw the driver sustain minor injuries after he was rescued by some onlookers.

However, his mate, who was trapped in the wreckage, was moaning in pain as the rescue team made constant efforts to drag him out.

The Ghanan National Fire Service and other rescue teams, after 16 hours, successfully rescued the 20-year-old.

But, he was reported dead at the Kintampo Government Hospital few minutes after his rescue at 1:10 am today.

The driver sustained a minor injury and has been treated and discharged from the same hospital.

The woman, who only gave her name as Hawa, said the Kumasi bound Metro Mass bus immediately caught fire when it collided with the Sprinter bus.

“We were travelling from Bawku to Kumasi, when all of a sudden a 207 bus (referring to the sprinter bus) crushed into our bus. both vehicles immediately went up in flames,” she said.

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Hawa, during her interview with Adom News’ Wiafe Akenten, was in tears for not being able to save her 12-year-old boy.   

Six survivors including Hawa are reported to be currently receiving medical treatment at the Kintampo Government Hospital.

Background

A Metro Mass bus, which was carrying sacks of fresh pepper and about 12 passengers heading towards Kintampo from Tamale, collided head-on with a Sprinter minibus between Kawampe and Dawadawa at about 4:00 am Monday.

Reports say the two buses caught fire after the collision and all the passengers, who got trapped in the Sprinter bus, could not make it.

Speaking on Adom FM’s Morning Show “Dwaso Nsem” Tuesday, Mrs Afeku said the non-existence of specific Tourism Legislation has led to the unnecessary takeovers by party Foot Soldiers such the Invisible Forces taking over the Kintampo Water Falls.

This development follows accusation by the Kyeremankomahene of Kintampo, Nana Effah Guakro blaming the cause of the recent disaster on the takeover of the Kintampo Falls by the Invisible Forces.

The students, from the Wenchi Methodist Senior High School and the University of Energy and Natural Resources, were bathing in the pond beneath the waterfall during a heavy rain storm on Sunday when a tree along the banks broke, crashing them to death.

Following the incident, the chief of the town disclosed that immediately after the 2016 general elections, the Kintampo sect of pro-NPP vigilante group, Invincible Forces, chased away operators of the facility and took over

But Mrs Afeku says the Legislative Instrument (LI) will bring an end to such mishaps.