Eight people died, seven on the spot and one later at the Kintampo Municipal Hospital in the Brong Ahafo Region, when a Toyota mini bus and a 207 Benz bus on which they were travelling from opposite directions collided at Kawumpe, near Kintampo.
The accident, in which other passengers were said to be seriously injured, occurred at about 11p.m. on Monday, when the Toyota bus with passengers on board from Burkina Faso to southern Ghana collided with the 207 vehicle also loaded with passengers from Ejura in the Ashanti Region en route to Tamale.
The Deputy Superintendent of Police in-charge of Kintampo District Police, DSP K. Boampong, who briefed the Daily Graphic via telephone in Sunyani yesterday, gave the registration number of the Toyota bus as 11G88BF and the 207, AS5831Q.
He alleged that the two vehicles, from opposite directions, were speeding when suddenly the Toyota bus driver, who also died, lost control of the steering wheel and drove into the lane of the Tamale-bound 207 vehicle which resulted in the accident.
The DSP indicated that the injured were currently at the Kintampo Hospital.
He quoted hospital sources as saying that they would be transferred to the Techiman Holy Family Hospital, the Regional Hospital in Sunyani or the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi for treatment, depending on the degree or seriousness of their injury.
According to Mr Boampong, both the hospital authorities and the police were waiting for the relations of the deceased to come over to identify their bodies or else they would be transported to the Sunyani Regional Hospital mortuary because conditions at the Kintampo hospital mortuary were not the best.
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