Bloody Saturday: 26 persons dead on Tamale-Bolgatanga highway
Twenty-six persons are reported dead in a horrific accident on the Tamale-Bolgatanga highway last Saturday morning. The deceased include the drivers of the two vehicles and the Upper Regional Correspondent of The Enquirer newspaper, Mr Samuel Abaane.
The bodies of the deceased have since been deposited at the morgue of the Tamale Teaching Hospital (TTH), whilst those who sustained injuries are said to be responding to treatment at the hospital.
According to Dr. Opoku Boateng of the TTH, in all, 35 of the victims were on admission at the hospital. He described the conditions of 16 of them as critical.
The accident, which occurred near Savelugu in the Northern Region, involved a Metro-Mass Transit bus and Benz bus with registration numbers AS 9905 Y and AS 7510 F respectively.
Mr Alex Oppong of the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) who visited the scene of the accident attributed the cause to reckless driving by one of the drivers.
The officer said the Metro bus was travelling from Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region to Tamale while the Benz bus was on its way from Kumasi to Bolgatanga.
He said in his attempt to overtake a car, the Benz bus driver hit the Metro bus in a head-on collision. In the event, all the passengers on board the Benz bus died instantly
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