Four persons, including a motor rider, sustained various degrees of injuries when a Volvo tipper truck conveying canned soft drinks ran into eight vehicles and a motorbike at a busy intersection in Ho on Friday.

The driver of the Volvo truck with registration number GR 3351X fled, leaving his two mates, who were injured, behind.

Mr. Franklin Masiku, Volta Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Fire Service, who briefed journalists at the scene, said the Fire office received a distress call at about 1125 hours.

He said the driver lost control of the vehicle while descending the Klefe Hills towards Ho, and crashed the eight vehicles and a shop.

The Ghana News Agency (GNA) observed that, the intersection was closed to traffic for about an hour before officials of Road Safety Management Services arrived to tow the vehicles off the spot.

A medical officer at the Volta Regional Hospital told the GNA that the injuries were minor.