One dead, four injured in Cape Coast accident

One person died, and four others were injured, when the vehicle they were travelling on run into a parked bus, near the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) Office in Cape Coast, at dawn on Monday.

The deceased, identified as Emmanuel Jackson, was said to be driving a Toyota Corolla saloon car from Kingsway to Nkanfoa, both suburbs of Cape Coast at about 1220 hours.

Chief Superintendent of Police Felix Kwasi Cosmos, the Regional Motor Traffic and Transport Department Commander, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the deceased, on reaching the ECG Office area at Tantri, suddenly run into the parked Nissan Urvan Bus.

He said the driver, with his four passengers, was rushed to the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital; but he (the driver) was pronounced dead when they arrived there.

Supt. Cosmos said the injured persons were on admission at the Hospital, while the body of the deceased had been deposited at the morgue.