ACCRA, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- A road crash claimed 14 lives at Anyinam, 113 km northwest of the Ghanaian capital Accra in the early hours of Friday, Ghana police have confirmed.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Alexander Obeng of the Ghana Police Service, said the accident occurred when a Benz Sprinter mini bus collided with a cargo truck after overtaking another vehicle on the Accra-Kumasi road just around midnight.
"It was a pile-up accident involving three vehicles - an articulated truck with two other commercial vehicles. There were so many passengers injured with 14 passengers in one of the buses being killed," he disclosed.
According to eyewitness accounts, all the dead were members of one family who were on their way to attend a funeral.
They comprised seven female adults, two male adults and five infants.
Just about a week earlier, a similar crash had claimed nine lives along the same corridor.
According to the police officer, one of the vehicles on its way to Accra tried an unlawful changing of routes in an attempt to overtake other vehicles in the same lane, while there was another vehicle coming from the opposite direction, resulting in the crash.
"It is unfortunate to be seeing this accident along the same corridor, knowing very well that this same place recorded that tragic incident last week which left many dead and others injured," DSP Obeng observed.
