Run-away smuggling car kills school girl

A Nissan Premier Car, which attempted to run away from the police, with goods believed to be smuggled into the country, ended up killing a 15 year old school girl.

Miss Sandra Appiah, a JSS three pupil of Saint Paul's Methodist School and the only child of her mother, was on her way to school early that morning for extra tuition, when the accident occurred. She was rushed to the Tema General Hospital but died three hours later.

A police source told the GNA that the car with registration number GT 6592 R, sped past the Kpone Police barrier popularly called "Jerusalem Gate" on the Tema-Aflao road early that morning, ignoring signs from the police to stop. When it again sped through the red traffic light on the Tema hospital road, two policemen who suspected something fishy stopped a private car, which assisted in giving the vehicle a chase. It was in the course of the chase that it knocked down the school girl but failed to stop.

The policemen continued with the chase until the driver, who did not know the road very well, drove into a close near the Tema Polyclinic. The source said the driver of the vehicle quickly bolted but two other occupants, Ama Felicia and Nana Yaw Agyeman owners of the uncustomed goods are helping the police in their investigations.