A motor rider who has been identified as Johnson Owusu has been confirmed dead after he was rushed to the hospital this morning. Johnson was driving on the O. A. street which leads to the Maxwell Road at Fante New Town when he met his untimely death.
From reports, Johnson Owusu was crossing By His Grace Beauty salon junction when a tipper truck which was coming from the opposite direction crashed him down. Salifu Adizza, a porridge (Koko) seller at the junction, narrated to the police that, Johnson was not looking ahead of him when he crashed into the tipper truck.
He was greeting someone when he arrived at the junction. There was a conversation between him and a commercial (trotro) driver. They seemed to be friends so he was responding to the trotro driver while riding.
He turned back and shouted; ‘I don’t know but I will see what I can I do. I will come there next week’. That was what he said before his death. He was not looking ahead of him, and that made him crash the tipper, Salifu Adizza narrated to the police in Akan after the accident.
Adizza had further stated that the tipper truck driver had no knowledge he had crashed someone and kept dragging Johnson until the tipper was stopped by force. The tipper driver himself could not see he has crashed the motor rider, and that made him drag him from the junction to the middle of the road, Adizza added.
Johnson sustained injuries to his legs and head. His head hit the steering of the bicycle while the legs went under the front tyres of the tipper truck. His legs were all damaged and would have been amputated even if he should have survived the accident, eye witness stated.
Johnson was taken to the Komfo Anokye teaching hospital where he was confirmed dead at 7 O’Clock this morning. Johnson was on his way to complete a tiling job, according to Charles Owusu, the trotro driver who was engaging him in a conversation before the accident.
The Police haven’t made any move yet, except the tipper driver who has been taken into custody for questioning. It is still unknown whether Charles Owusu will face any prosecution for engaging the rider in traffic but others have argued that, Johnson could have parked and attended to Charles instead of riding and talking at the same time.
Charles and Johnson had grown up in the same neighbourhood and were childhood friends. They bear the same surname and that, according to Charles, kept them together as friends until work separated them.
Johnson Owusu before his death. A picture Charles Owusu shared after the accident. Â
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