{"id":1165924,"date":"2022-08-04T06:49:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T06:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/04\/12-persons-killed-in-accident-on-elmina-komenda-junction-road\/"},"modified":"2022-08-04T06:49:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T06:49:46","slug":"12-persons-killed-in-accident-on-elmina-komenda-junction-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/04\/12-persons-killed-in-accident-on-elmina-komenda-junction-road\/","title":{"rendered":"12 persons killed in accident on Elmina -Komenda junction road"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Twelve persons have been killed in an accident at Eduagyei on the Elmina -Komenda junction road in the Central Region.<\/p>\n

According to the Police, the 12 persons died when a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number WR 1347- 17, collided head-on with a DAF Truck with registration number GM 2570-12.<\/p>\n

One person was injured in the accident. <\/p>\n

According to eyewitnesses, the DAF trailer that was fully loaded with bags of cement was heading towards Takoradi whereas the Toyota Hiace bus was heading to Kumasi from Takoradi.<\/p>\n

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The trailer, it is alleged, overtook a vehicle ahead of it in a poor visibility area due to smoke from a burning bush and as a result, run into the Toyota Hiace bus which was traveling from Kumasi to Takoradi.<\/p>\n

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The Ghana National Fire Service reports that they received the distress call at 1550hrs from a police officer and their rescue team was quickly dispatched to the scene from the Elmina Fire Station.<\/p>\n

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The team extricated the victims with the aim of searching for survivors.<\/p>\n

According to them, they could only find one person alive. Meanwhile, the whereabout of the driver of the DAF Truck is yet to be known.<\/p>\n

The dead include 5 females and 7 males. Their bodies have been deposited at the Cape Coast teaching Hospital Morgue for autopsy.<\/p>\n

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Twelve persons have been killed in an accident at Eduagyei on the Elmina -Komenda junction road in the Central Region. According to the Police, the 12 persons died when a Toyota Hiace bus with registration number WR 1347- 17, collided head-on with a DAF Truck with registration number GM 2570-12. One person was injured in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1165926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[1978,4654,11404,5163,5376,1660,1478],"class_list":["post-1165924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-accident","tag-elmina","tag-junction","tag-killed","tag-komenda","tag-persons","tag-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}