Eight people, including a four-month-old baby, died on the spot when a 207 Mercedes Benz bus skidded off the Accra-Tema Motorway, somersaulted and crashed into a ditch on Friday evening.
The driver and his mate, together with other passengers on the bus, sustained various degrees of injury and are responding to treatment at the Tema General Hospital.
According to Mr Philip Ansah, an eyewitness who said he was crossing the road when the accident occurred, about 5 p.m. on Friday, during the usual rush hour, the bus, which was moving from the Accra end of the Motorway and loaded with gallons of Akpeteshie, baskets of palm fruit and bunches of plantain, went out of control after bursting a tyre near the Trassaco Valley Estates.
The eyewitness said the back right tyre of the vehicle got detached from the axle and the bus hit a street light before somersaulting into a ditch.
The accident had resulted in heavy vehicular traffic on that part of the road when the Daily Graphic got to the scene.
Residents of the area assisted police personnel from Tema and Accra to control the movement of vehicles and direct traffic.
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