E/R: Fuel tanker bursts into flames after crashing while descending Mamfe mountains
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A Fuel Tanker caught fire Saturday evening after crashing while descending Mamfe Akuapem mountains towards Adawso direction in Eastern region.
As per an onlooker the circumstance is serious as the big hauler keeps on detonating on numerous occasions.
He said the whole stretch of street has been immersed on fire thus vehicles handling the street can’t cross making gridlock.
Numerous travelers are in this manner abandoned. No loss affirmed up until this point.
Drivers are to utilize Koforidua to Adukrom street to join Mamfe, Aburi and proceed to Accra as firemen were at this point to show up to quench the fire.
Various accidents have as of late been recorded on that stretch of the street.
Scores of travelers were purportedly harmed after a Toyota Fish with registration number GX 8555-20 and a Toyota Hiace with enlistment number GW 6185-16 were associated with an accident on Akuapem Mamfe mountains in the Eastern district.
The Toyota Fish vehicle somersaulted severally prior to arriving out and about.
Tenants of the Toyota Fish experienced basic wounds however those in the Toyota Hiace made due with minor wounds.
They were raced to Tetteh Quarshie Dedication Clinic.
The accident occured under 24 hours after a driver of Xugong Versatile Crane vehicle passed on in a lethal accident on same stretch of Mamfe to Koforidua street.
The driver was descending the mountain when he lost control of the steering wheel leading to the crash.
Personnel of the Ghana Police Service and Ghana National Fire Service who went to the scene observed that the Xugong mobile crane with registration number GS 8400-11 was partially in the bush on the shoulder of the road with the occupant (driver or operator) nowhere to be found.
The driver was later found lying motionless in the nearby bush during a search .
He was rushed to Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital by the Police but pronounced dead on arrival.
Source: Ghanaxpress.com
