Takoradi: 40ft Container falls off truck and kills 2 in Daewoo Matiz (DISTURBING PHOTOS)

Posted on November 28, 2020November 28, 2020
by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Around 11:20 pm on Friday 27th November, 2020, two people were killed by a 40 footer container loaded with cocoa on the Vodafone stretch in Takoradi.

According to Police report available to www.233times.net, one Eric Pamford Peters aged 30 now deceased was driving Daewoo Matiz private car with registration number WR 1049 -19. Mr Peters was driving from Paa Grant round-about towards Kwame Nkrumah round-about and on board was one Ama Amponsah, aged 27 (also deceased).

Upon reaching the Vodafone intersection, a Daf articulated truck with registration number GT 5953 – 20 from the opposite direction driven by Adu Emmanuel Kwaku aged 32 with 40 footer container loaded with cocoa, veered of his lane and climbed the median to the lane of the Matiz.

The container detached from the truck and fell on the Matiz, crushing it. The deceased were trapped in the car but with the help of Fire Service and road safety recovery truck, they were removed and bodies deposited at Effia Nkwanta Government Hospital Morgue pending autopsy.

Accident vehicles have towed the vehicles to RMTTD yard in Sekondi pending testing. Suspect driver Emmanuel Kwaku has been arrested and in police custody.

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Author: Nana Kwesi Coomson (www.233times.net) @nkcoomson on Twitter/Instagram

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An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.

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