A speeding VIP Bus has crushed a Military Officer to death in a head-on collision accident on Suhum stretch of the Accra to Kumasi Highways.
The deadly accident happened Sunday at 10:10pm.
The deceased military officer was driving unregistered Nissan Note Private Car from Kumasi direction towards Accra but on reaching Asuboi -Suhum stretch of the Accra to Kumasi Highways, a V.I.P Daewood bus with registration number GT 9988-13 onboard with passengers from Accra to Kumasi wrongfully overtook a vehicle ahead hence crashed head-on with the Nissan Car occupied by the said Military Officer and his colleague from the opposite direction.
The Acting Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Regional Police Command Sargent Francis Gomado explained that the Nissan Note driver and his colleague were trapped in the car but Police with the assistance of the Ghana National Fire Service and National Ambulance Emergency center at Asuboi, and MTTD personnel from Suhum, they were extricated and rushed to Suhum government hospital but the Nissan Note driver was pronounced dead on arrival whilst his occupant was admitted for treatment.
Meanwhile, suspect driver Kwabena Agyei who was in-charge of the Daewoo bus was also admitted at the same hospital for treatment.
The body has been deposited at the mortuary of the same hospital for identification, preservation, and autopsy.
The accident vehicles have been towed away from the road allowing the free flow of traffic.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
