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A report put together by Graphic Online reveals that 17 people have lost their lives in a motor accident on the Offinso-Abofour road in the Ashanti Region while 16 sustained various degrees of injuries.
The accident involved a Mercedez Sprinter bus and an articulated truck.
Meanwhile, Graphic reports that the Offinso MTTD Commander, DSP Edmund Nyamekye explained that preliminary investigation points to the fact that the driver of the truck was dosing off, and that led to the head-on collision with the Sprinter bus.
He said the accident happened at the outskirts of Offinso, precisely in the Abofour forest area.
“So far we have registered 17 dead and then 16 are injured. They have all been rushed to the hospital for treatment,” DSP Nyamekye said.
He gave the breakdown of the dead as 14 females and 3 males.
He said the deceased include the driver of the Sprinter bus. The driver of the articulated truck is in a critical condition, he added.
