Two 2M Express Company Limited Toyota Hiace buses collided head-on at Birimso near Bunso on the Accra to Kumasi route, killing nine (9) passengers instantaneously. Nineteen (19) other passengers with serious injuries have been admitted at the hospitals. There terrible accident happened on March 26, 2023, about 4:30 am on Sunday.
GN 3229-21 and GN 8292-20, two buses with a combined 28 passengers on board, were reportedly traveling at a high rate of speed. It is thought that at the Birimso portion of the highway, where a trailer truck hauling a container had been engaged in an accident with the container on the shoulders of the road, the bus from Accra abruptly veered over to the lane of the oncoming bus from Kumasi, crashing head-on.
Drivers and residents nearby rushed to the scene to support the rescue effort.Kwame Dan, a driver who went to the scene was worried over how 2M Express Buses excessively speed on the road. According to Bunso Station Officer of Ghana National Fire Service, ADO II Samuel Doe, they dispatched a rescue team to the scene immediately after receiving a distress call about the crash around 4:30am. He said victims trapped in the buses were extricated and were sent to Kibi Government Hospital and Hawa Memorial Saviour Hospital in Kyebi and Osiem respectively. ADO II confirmed 9 passengers died on the spot while other victims were seriously injured. He described the impact of the crash as devastating as one of the vehicles mangled to size of a taxi.
He disputed claims that the Toyota Hiace Bus from Kumasi might have swerved the fallen container causing the collision. “The trailer carrying container had accident there but when you observe you can see that the container is not in the middle of the road .some people were saying the vehicle from Kumasi swerved the container but looking at the scene actually you could observe that the car that was coming from Kumasi was in its lane correctly that the one coming from Accra diverted to the Kumasi lane.From my observation I will say the accident wasn’t caused by the trailer”. The latest accident brings to 18 the total number of road fatalities recorded within 24 hours in the region during the weekend.
Eight (8) passengers on board a commercial Hyundai vehicle with the registration number GB 4644 – 20 traveling from Juapong to Accra perished when the driver failed to wait for the truck to pass at a narrow section of the road where Granbird Bus had stopped. The truck had the registration number GT 6473-21. Grace Adu, 60, was struck and killed by a Toyota Corolla with the license plate GE 4157-23 that same day in the afternoon at Nyamebekyere on the Koforidua to Adukrom road. The driver of the Toyota was an engineer for the Electricity Company of Ghana.
