An accident which occurred on the night of April 16, 2025, at Assin Asempanaye in the Central Region has claimed the lives of three teenagers.
The accident occurred when a KIA Granbird bus, with registration number GT 5727-20 and carrying 42 passengers from Kumasi to Takoradi, collided with an unregistered Royal motorbike carrying the victims.
Details emerging indicate that the motorbike was being ridden by a 16-year-old boy identified as Wisdom Anane.
He had two pillion passengers identified as Philip Agborka, 16, and Philip Tetteh, 17.
Preliminary investigations by the Central North Regional Police MTTD of the Ghana Police Service disclosed that the bus driver, 50-year-old Akwasi Adjei, failed to exercise due caution and crashed into the motorbike near the Assin Kushea junction on the Cape Coast–Kumasi highway as the teenagers were negotiating a curve.
The motorbike and the riders got trapped under the bus and dragged for approximately 120 metres before the vehicle finally came to a halt.
The three teenagers sustained serious injuries and were rushed to St Francis Xavier Hospital in Assin Fosu, where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
Their bodies have been deposited at the hospital mortuary for preservation and autopsy.
The police have impounded the KIA bus and the mangled motorbike at the Assin Praso Police Station to aid in ongoing investigations.
The driver of the bus, Akwasi Adjei, is currently in police custody assisting with the investigation.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
