This week’s bus crash in Ghana was
one of the deadliest in history. 71 people were killed, and another 13
seriously injured, when a coach collided head-on with a lorry carrying
tomatoes near the town of Kintampo, about 260 miles from the capital, Accra.
It was travelling from the country’s
second city Kumasi to the northern town of Tamale. Investigators have said the
bus was overloaded. It should have been carrying only 63 passengers.
A survivor
reportedly told police that the vehicle had brake problems. Another alleged the driver had
been going too fast, and that he had ignored pleas to slow down.
Rescue workers had to use chainsaws
to try to get to people trapped in the wreckage. There was anger about graphic
images of the accident that were posed on social media, while Ghana’s president,
John Mahama, went on to Twitter to offer his condolences. (See also my blogs of 5 January and
23 February 2010 and 9 February 2013.)
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