Two more victims of Dompoase road accident die

Cape Coast, June 13, GNA - Two more victims of the road accident that involved the Takoradi-Accra bound Inter city/STC bus and a tipper truck at Dompoase near Komenda junction on Thursday died at the Central Regional Hospital while on admission, bringing the total deaths to 17. They were among 38 victims who were rushed to the hospital in a critical condition, one of them died at about 17.30 hours on Thursday while the other died at 9.00 hours on Friday.
Dr Kofi Sabeng, Medical Director in-charge of the hospital speaking to newsmen in this office in Cape Coast on Friday said a total of 38 people were rushed to the hospital alive with eight corpses. He said two of the victims including a seven month old girl who was travelling with her grandmother who died on the spot were treated and discharged.
Dr Sabeng said there were currently 34 people including a 12 year-old girl who gave her name as Grace Essien were on admission and in stable condition, adding that most of them came in with head injuries and multiple-fractures of their limbs.
He said their conditions would be reviewed and those that could be managed at the hospital would be taken care of, while those with very critical conditions would be referred to Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra for special treatment.
Dr Sabeng said seven out of the eight corpses that were brought to the morgue on Thursday had been identified by their relatives. At the Cape Coast MTTU, Chief Inspector Oheneba Amoako-Boateng, Station Officer said the police were making frantic efforts to find the tipper truck driver who he said, was the only one yet to be found.
He said the police were mobilizing equipment to lift the tipper truck which had its head buried in the ground to see whether the driver was trapped, but expressed fears that he might not be alive.
Chief Inspector Amoako-Boateng said some of the deceased identified were, Mrs Victoria Kingsford 42, Augustine Tamakole 42, Fusana Barimah 26, Paul Broni Doe 38, Godfrey Kodi 56, Dorcas Narh 45, Abraham Amoako-Atta 23 and a soldier.
He said documents were being prepared to have post-mortem performed on them before releasing them to their families.
Chief Inspector Amoako-Boateng said Evans Aggrey-Fynn, Cecilia Freku, Kwame Nyame, Tanue Blay Jamie and Evelyn Kwafo were yet to be identified by their relatives.
It would be called that 15 people died on the spot and 33 others were seriously injured when a Takoradi-Accra bound STC bus collided head-on with a tipper truck at about 4.00 am at Dompoase near Komenda Junction in the Central Region on Thursday.
The injured were rushed to the Central Regional Hospital in critical conditions while the dead were deposited at the mortuaries of Cape Coast Metropolitan and Central Regional Hospitals.