DCE’s car kills 3 pupils and a teacher in Nkawkaw

Three male pupils and a female teacher of the Ampeah Memorial School in Nkawkaw have been confirmed dead in a fatal motor accident that occurred on the Nkawkaw section of the Kumasi-Accra road late Thursday afternoon.

A Nissan Patrol vehicle, said to be the official vehicle of the District Chief Executive for Atwima Kwanwoma in the Ashanti region, Prince Karikari, is said to have crashed into the Hyundai mini bus on which they were.

Eyewitnesses say the driver of the bus attempted an unapproved U-Turn whilst driving on the shoulders of the road from the Accra-Kumasi direction at a spot near Nanchia.

All the victims, including the female teacher identified as Dorcas Dede, died while receiving treatment at the Holy Family Hospital at Nkawkaw after being rushed there.

The accident occurred at about 3:30 p.m. at the time the victims, pupils of Ampeah Memorial School and their teachers, numbering about twenty-three, and the driver identified as Agya Ofosu Addo, were returning home after close of school.

Eyewitnesses say the driver of the mini bus, with registration GE 2291-10, used an unapproved route to join the Nkawkaw bypass at Nanchia after joining the dual carriage highway. He is said to have driven on the shoulders of the road before making the unapproved turn.

Agya Ofosu suddenly made a U-turn to join the Kumasi-Accra lanes. It was in the process of making the U-turn that the DCE’s vehicle, with registration number GT 8455-19 which was then descending a hilly portion from the Accra-Kumasi direction of the highway, crashed into the bus.