BREAKING NEWS: Driver suffocates to death in his vehicle in Ashanti Region
A trailer driver, Amadu Watara, has met his untimely demise on the Akomadan-Offinso highway in the Offinso North District of the Ashanti Region.
The said driver of the Burkina Faso long vehicle truck was heading towards Offinso from Techiman.
On reaching a point in Akomadan, he bursted one of the tyres, and unfortunately, because of the speeding of the vehicle, it veered off the road, damaging several high tension poles on the road side.
It later crashes into a deep ditch not too far from the road.
Confirming the incident on a Kumasi based Silver FM’s morning show today, Monday, February 21, 2022, monitored by filasconews, DSP Joseph Gyasi Agyemang, Offinso North District Police Commander, said, the police together with their other colleagues from National Fire Service, Ambulance Service etc. did their possible best to rescuing the driver of the trailer trapped in the ditch but to no avail.
“The driver and his mate were in the trailer but the mate was able to jump out from it before it landed into the ditch but the driver could not”, DSP Gyasi revealed on the show hosted by Nana Ampratwum.
The driver spent at least 24hours inside the trailer’s locked up head, in the ditch, after all efforts proved futile on the first day.
“The incident happened on Saturday noon but we were able to remove the truck from the hole yesterday, and unfortunately, he was suffocated to death”, he opined.
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He added that, the mate of the truck is seriously injured and is receiving treatment at the Hospital whiles the driver’s remains is being kept in the same facility’s morgue, Akomadan Government hospital, for autopsy and preservation.
Source: filasconews
