Accidents on motorway alarming

Pg 30. Fri. May 09/08

Story Rebecca Quaicoe Duho

A DAF truck, in the early hours of last morning, ran into and a stationary tipper truck on the Tema Motorway, causing serious traffic for several hours.
The accident, which did not claim any life nor cause any injury, is, however, one of the numerous accidents that have occurred on the Motorway over these past few weeks.
The DAF truck, with registration number GW 689 U, which was being driven by one Daniel Gidi, was said to have run into the tipper truck which was carrying spare parts from Tema to Abossey Okai in Accra and was said to have developed a fault on the Motorway.
According to the driver of the tipper truck, Mr Frank Donkoh, he had left the truck on the road where it had developed the fault, while he waited for another truck to offload the goods to Accra.
He said although there was a reflector placed a few metres away from the stationary truck, while he stood by to caution other road users, the driver of the DAF truck, who was driving at top speed from the Tema end of the Motorway, ignored the reflector and ran into the parked truck, dragging it several metres till it fell on its side.
It would be recalled that late last week an accident occurred on the Motorway which claimed the life of one of Ghana’s famous actors, Kwame Owusu Ansah, while early this week another accident involving seven cars occurred, claiming one life.