{"id":705521,"date":"2019-09-14T13:34:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T13:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/09\/14\/2-die-in-crash-on-obuasi-road\/"},"modified":"2019-09-14T13:34:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T13:34:46","slug":"2-die-in-crash-on-obuasi-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/09\/14\/2-die-in-crash-on-obuasi-road\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Die In Crash On Obuasi Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The mangled bus after the accident<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two persons \u2013 a man and a woman \u2013 died on the spot when a Ford bus<br \/>\ncarrying 15 passengers overturned on the Obuasi-Dunkwa highway on Thursday<br \/>\nafternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Driver of the bus, who is on admission, was said to have lost<br \/>\ncontrol of the steering wheel after a tyre burst at Camp Nkwanta community,<br \/>\nnear Tweapiase.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven others, including two in critical conditions, were also<br \/>\ntaken to the Obuasi Government Hospital after the accident that happened at about<br \/>\n12:15 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Odai of the Obuasi Divisional Police Command said it took<br \/>\nrescuers close to 30 minutes to get all the passengers out of the bus with<br \/>\nregistration number GX 3250\u201316, which was travelling from Kumasi to Tarkwa.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police officer, who was at the scene of the<br \/>\naccident close to a police barrier he was manning, two bodies were taken to the<br \/>\nmorgue at the Obuasi Government Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses told <strong><em>DAILY GUIDE<\/em><\/strong> that the bus burst a<br \/>\nrear tyre as the driver was negotiating a sharp curve at a portion of the road,<br \/>\nlosing control in the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore anybody could think of something else, the bus had<br \/>\nhit a culvert and it began to somersault,\u201d one of the surviving passengers<br \/>\ndisclosed.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the bus finally landed on a male passenger after<br \/>\nhe was thrown out of it, crushing his head in the process.<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that some of the passengers were thrown out of the<br \/>\nbus, while others were trapped inside with broken limbs and crushed heads. <\/p>\n<p><strong>From Ernest Kofi Adu, Kumasi<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mangled bus after the accident Two persons \u2013 a man and a woman \u2013 died on the spot when a Ford bus carrying 15 passengers overturned on the Obuasi-Dunkwa highway on Thursday afternoon. 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