The National Road Safety Authority(NRSA) says preliminary investigations points to driver fatigue as cause of the accident that occurred at Gomoa Okyereko in the Central Region Tuesday dawn that claimed 16 lives and left over 25 persons severely injured.
The accident involved a fully packed Yutong bus heading towards Accra and a fuel tanker believed to be owned by Goodness Energy.
According to information gathered by Starr News, the driver of the Yutong bus was sleeping along the journey and upon reaching Gomoa Okyereko he veered from his lane into the opposite lane resulting in the collision with the Fuel tanker.
The body of all Sixteen deceased persons have been deposited at the Winneba Specialist and Trauma Hospital Mortuary while the injured are receiving treatment at the same facility.
Speaking on the Morning Starr with Naa Dedei Tettey, the Central Regional Head of the National Road Safety Authority, Linda Afottey Anang, said one of the drivers is suspected to have been dozing off, leading to the fatal crash.
“With this one that we have just recorded, I am told one of the drivers was tired which means that they have been driving for a long time and there hasn’t been any form of rest and in the heat of the moment, I am sure the person dozed off or something and that was what caused the crash over there” Linda Afottey Anang stated.
She continued: “One thing we are advocating for is the dualization of the road. We tend to have lots of head-on -collisions, so that will be an engineering issue there(Gomoa Okyereko). For head-on-collisions we need to dualize the roads so that we’ll be able to minimize collisions at where we’re having the head-on-collisions.”
Madam Afottey Anang also urged government to dualize the major roads in the country to address road carnage.
The National Road Safety Authority and the Ghana Police Service have identified Gomoa Okyereko as one of the most accident prone areas on the Accra to Cape Coast Highway and have advised drivers to be extra careful on that stretch of the road.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM
