Offinso MTTD Commander, DSP Edmund Nyamekye, says preliminary investigations reveal that the truck driver in the Offinso-Abofour accident was fatigued.
17 passengers perished with 16 others sustained serious injuries, in a fatal accident that occurred on the Offinso-Abofour road in the Ashanti Region on Monday.
The bodies of the 17 have since been deposited at the morgue, and the other 14 are receiving treatment in the hospital.
Speaking to host of Atinka FM’s AM Drive, Kaakyire Ofori Ayim, Offinso MTTD Commander, DSP Edmund Nyamekye, noted that per preliminary investigations, the driver of the trailer that collided head-on with the Sprinter bus was fatigued and was dozing off.
“There was a head-on collision. Seventeen people are dead, and others are injured, who have all been rushed to the hospital for treatment. The driver of the Sprinter is also dead. He should have stopped somewhere and relax, but he went on to drive, lost control of the vehicle, and run into a ditch,” DSP Edmund Nyamekye told Kaakyire Ofori Ayim.
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This accident adds up to the over 1,000 persons who are estimated to have lost their lives through road accidents in 2021.
DSP Edmund noted that fatigue is a major cause of road accidents for drivers who ply long routes.
The Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service (GPS) recently, revealed that the number of commuters killed in road traffic crashes for the first nine months of the year 2021 rose by 16.37% compared to the same period last year.
It increased from 1,827 between January and September 2020 to 2,126 in the first nine months of this year.
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