Daily Graphic

"Couple Burnt to Death" and "Driver fined ?600,000 for killing 3 persons" are the two screaming headlines in the Daily Graphic.

The first story has it that in an accident which eye witnesses say can only be described as harrowing the lives of a couple ended tragically when their car skidded off the road, crashed and burst into flames.

The accident which occurred at a point near Duaya Nkwanta, in their Suzuki jeep in which they were travelling from Chiraa to Kumasi, claimed the life of Kwaku Frimpong 40, and his wife Yaa Nsiah 35. Frimpong is said to have mentioned his name and his hometown before the blaze consumed him and his wife.

On-lookers said it was agonising as the couple screamed for help but nobody could fight the blaze to rescue them.

The bodies have been deposited at the Sunyani Government Hospital Mortuary for autopsy.

The second story has it that the Central Regional Tribunal sentenced Ibrahim Karim, the Bank of Ghana driver who knocked down four persons at a spot near Pedu junction in Cape Coast, killing three of them instantly, to a fine of ?600,000.00 on all five counts of careless driving and negligently.

In default, the Graphic reports, Karim will serve two years in hard labour.

The report gives a background to the case that on July 15, 1998, Karim, driving a Land Rover in a convoy of Bank of Ghana bullion cars from Takoradi to Accra, veered off his course at about 11.45am and run into the four persons who were standing by the road side.

The three of them, Dorcas Kumi, a ward assistance at the Police Clinic at Cape Coast. Efua Kyei a 20 year old pregnant woman and Rahatu Abubakari, a 12 year old school girl died on the spot. The fourth person, Janet Aidoo, 19 years is still on admission at the Koforidua St. Joseph?s Hospital.