{"id":1196593,"date":"2022-09-01T17:11:12","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T17:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/01\/one-feared-dead-several-passengers-injured-in-a-gory-accident-on-tema-motorway\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T17:11:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T17:11:12","slug":"one-feared-dead-several-passengers-injured-in-a-gory-accident-on-tema-motorway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/01\/one-feared-dead-several-passengers-injured-in-a-gory-accident-on-tema-motorway\/","title":{"rendered":"One feared dead, several passengers injured in a gory accident on Tema Motorway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/3f2e1ae4b18741508fca807f6ef4952a\"\/>A gory accident occurred on the Tema Motorway today, September 1, before noon with several passengers,  babies sustaining injuries and one feared dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A victim\u2019s account indicated that the commercial vehicle was headed to Accra from Tema at a top speed. According to Yaw Osei, the passengers complained, but the driver ignored them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the tyres at the back burst, and the car somersaulted. The passengers complained, but he did not listen,\u201d he told SVTV Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Another eyewitness speculated that the bus driver might have applied brakes when the tyre burst. As a result, the bus somersaulted onto the other lane leading to Tema.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to DJ Nyaami, who arrived at the scene at 10:30 am after the accident had occurred, he stated that an ambulance arrived 40 minutes later. However, police officers were at the location of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Onlookers helped carry injured victims into a private car before the ambulance arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Another witness added that the vehicle driver with the number plate GS 8915-17 was nowhere to be found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kindly watch the full video below;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Serious Accident On Tema Motorway 01-09-22\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nQ0PXc_tGYs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: SVTVAfrica.com (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nSVTV Africa<br \/>\nTema Motorway<br \/>\nYaw Osei<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A gory accident occurred on the Tema Motorway today, September 1, before noon with several passengers, babies sustaining injuries and one feared dead.\u00a0 A victim\u2019s account indicated that the commercial vehicle was headed to Accra from Tema at a top speed. According to Yaw Osei, the passengers complained, but the driver ignored them.\u00a0 \u201cOne of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1196599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1978,303,1494,7845,348,9626,9193,2450],"class_list":["post-1196593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-accident","tag-dead","tag-feared","tag-gory","tag-injured","tag-motorway","tag-passengers","tag-tema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196593","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=1196593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}