Three people died and several others got injured in an accident involving a mini bus and a tipper truck at Tsopoli on the Tema-Ada Road yesterday morning.
One of the dead was identified as Abigail Williams, 32, a trader from Tema Newtown, while the other two are yet to be identified.
The dead are all women. Passengers on the bus were fishmongers and traders from Tema Newtown and elsewhere who were on their way to sell their wares at Ada yesterday, the day being a market day in the town.
When the Daily Graphic got to the accident scene, policemen from Prampram were engaged in ensuring that the road was cleared of scattered items and the victims were being picked up into vehicles for hospital.
According to Chief Inspector Emelia Sowah of the Police Accident Squad at Prampram, at 9:15 a.m. yesterday, the bus took off from Tema with the passengers for Ada.
She said on reaching about two kilometres away from Tsopoli, an oncoming empty tipper truck veered off its lane and crashed into the bus, pushed it off and finally crashing into the nearby bush, killing the three instantly.
Chief Inspector Sowah said the injured, including the driver and the mate of the tipper truck, were rushed to the Tema General Hospital for treatment.
It was later discovered that a one-year-old baby girl, Gladys, whose mother was Abigail, was among the injured who were rushed to the hospital.
Chief Inspector Sowah appealed to people whose relatives travelled on the Tema-Ada road yesterday morning to contact the Prampram Police to identify their bodies.
She said the bodies would be deposited at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital mortuary, after which the police would follow with investigations.
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