An Intercity STC Scania Marcopolo bus has crashed at the Akyem Asafo portion of the Accra to Kumasi Highway resulting in the deaths of two drivers.
The speeding bus rammed into a faulty Man Diesel vehicle abandoned on the road without a warning triangle.
Mybrytfmonline.com sources indicate that, on June 16, 2021 suspect driver Abdul Raman Haruna, 45 years was driving a MAN Diesel Articulated truck with registration number GC 7150-11 from Kumasi direction towards Accra but on reaching a section of the road at Akyem Asafo about midnight, the truck developed a mechanical fault. The driver abandoned the truck on the road without informing the nearest Police station neither did he erect warning signs.
On the same day at about 2:30am the now-deceased driver -Victor Quest aged about 60 years driving the Intercity STC Scania Marcopolo bus with registration number GE 8136-16 with passengers on board from Kumasi direction towards Accra, ran into the rear portion of the faulty truck.
The driver Victor Quest and his second driver Joshua Tay died on the spot.
The bodies were removed from the bus and deposited at Suhum Government Hospital mortuary for preservation and autopsy.
The injured passengers including the Police escort Number Corporal Felix Appiah were rushed to Kibi Government Hospital for treatment.
Accident vehicles were towed from the road to a safer place for free flow of traffic by a team led by Sergeant Addo Baah Collins of Suhum Accident Squad investigating the accident.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
