DOUBLE AGONY FOR SICK WOMAN (MIRROR, PAGE 30)

From Emmanuel Modey, Nkwanta

A sick woman who was being conveyed from Breweniase in the Nkwanta District of the Volta Region to the Nkwanta District Hospital had her case compounded when the taxi carrying her was involved in a fatal accident.
The taxi, an Opel Kadet, with registration number AS 3644 N and driven by Gowon Raphael, was involved in a head-on collision with a 33-seater Mercedes Benz bus, with registration number GR 2933 D and driven by Ali Djabaru.
According to the Nkwanta District Police Commander, ASP Douglas Kumah, the Benz bus, which was going from Nkwanta to Hohoe at 7.00 a.m., was overtaking a cargo truck ahead of it but due to the mist, the driver did not see the oncoming taxi.
The accident occurred at a spot between Kakraka and Old Dufranpaju. One passenger, suspected to be the sick woman’s husband, Kwabenavi Ahiavi, died on the spot, while the taxi driver and the sick woman, Amewornyo, died later at the hospital.
One other passenger on board the taxi cab who was critically injured is on admission at the Nkwanta Hospital. None of the passengers in the Benz bus sustained any injury.