Ten people including two children were killed and at least eight critically injured when a commercial mini bus with registration number UW 171- 15 fleeing an approaching vehicle plunged into a faulty stationary long truck at Dikpa near Bole in the Northern region.
The mini bus was traveling from Kumasi to Wa and crashed into the stationed truck with a registration plate AS 379-N loaded with bags of fertilizer en route from Tema to Wa and developed an engine fault at Tipper around Tinga in the Bole/Bamboi District.
District police crime officer, ASP Ebenezer Kwaku Dartey confirmed the carnage to Starr News, adding that among the dead was a police officer.
The police officer, B. Yamdauk with the Wa Regional Highway Patrol was returning to his base after escorting a bus of passengers to Kumasi the previous day.
ASP Dartey said the accident happened at about 2:30am Saturday.
According to him, Bole Police Personnel on Highway patrol at Banda Nkwanta received the information about the fatal road traffic accident and rushed to the scene and found eight occupants seriously injured and 10 dead.
The victims were sent to Bole Government Hospital for treatment and the bodies deposited at Bole government hospital morgue awaiting identification and autopsy. The driver of the mini vehicle has, however, been referred to the Wa Hospital.
Accident on the Techiman-Wa expressway is seriously common but the number of casualties in this accident is said to be the highest to be recorded in more than nearly two decades.
