Cape Coast - Winneba Highway: 3 foreigners die in fatal crash at Gomoa Okyereko

Cape Coast - Winneba Highway: 3 foreigners die in fatal crash at Gomoa Okyereko

News reaching YEN.com.gh indicates that three white people believed to be foreigners have died in a fatal accident.

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The unfortunate incident occurred on the Cape Coast - Winneba Highway at Gomoa Okyereko in the Central region.

Eyewitness said the three foreigners, a man and two women were aboard a Toyota Prado with registration GN 3966-17.

The prado reportedly collided with a long truck at Okyereko Junction whiles trying to overtake a vehicle ahead of it.

Their bodies have been deposited at the morgue.

The recent spate of accidents on our roads is quite worrying.

These accidents happen within a split second and often times, the victims of these accidents play some role in the accidents that occur.

Some of these accidents are caused by over speeding and overtaking on the side of the drivers, drunk driving, tiredness while driving among others.

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YEN.com.gh reported that another accident has occurred on the Buipe-Tamale highway in the Central Gonja District in the Savannah Region.

The unfortunate incident occurred on Wednesday, February 17, 2021, around 10: 00 pm.

Two people, unfortunately, lost their lives in the crash with 15 others left with various degrees of injury.

According to a report filed by Graphic.com.gh, the incident happened at Mile 40 near Sarekyekura where one person died on the spot and the other at a health facility that same night.

The deceased(two male adults) and injured were among 51 passengers onboard a KIA Sky bus, with registration number GR 7287-21, which was travelling to Kumasi in the Ashanti Region from Garu in the Upper East Region.

Meanwhile, one person was reported dead after a head-on collision of an articulated truck and a saloon car.

The saloon car driver died after his car crashed into the articulated truck on the Teacher Mante stretch of the Accra-Kumasi Highway.

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The saloon car was heading towards Kumasi junction, but on reaching Teacher Mante, the driver reportedly overtook some vehicles ahead of him and crashed head-on with the articulated vehicle.

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