{"id":1269785,"date":"2022-12-24T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/24\/man-dies-family-injured-after-head-on-collision-at-abakam\/"},"modified":"2022-12-24T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T15:26:09","slug":"man-dies-family-injured-after-head-on-collision-at-abakam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/24\/man-dies-family-injured-after-head-on-collision-at-abakam\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Man dies, family injured after head-on collision at Abakam\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>By Victoria Agyemang\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Abakam (C\/R), Dec 24, GNA \u2013 A man, travelling with his family,\u00a0\u00a0 died Thursday evening in an\u00a0 accident when his vehicle collided with an oncoming truck, with a foreign number, on the Cape Coast-Elmina stretch of the Accra Highway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He reportedly drove his nephew to the Kotoka International Airport in Accra and was some two kilometers away from home when the accident occurred at Abakam, near the University of Cape Coast.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0His widow and children, who were injured are being treated at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital, while his body has been deposited at the morgue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An eye witness told the Ghana News Agency that the man was blinded by the light of the truck, leading to the accident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A police source confirmed the accident but did not give details.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GNA\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related News<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"74eec7a39c6f6963c4fef50b-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=249643311490&version=v2.3\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Victoria Agyemang\u00a0\u00a0 Abakam (C\/R), Dec 24, GNA \u2013 A man, travelling with his family,\u00a0\u00a0 died Thursday evening in an\u00a0 accident when his vehicle collided with an oncoming truck, with a foreign number, on the Cape Coast-Elmina stretch of the Accra Highway.\u00a0 \u00a0He reportedly drove his nephew to the Kotoka International Airport in Accra and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1213408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269785","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=1269785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}