Santa Maria accident: pay-loader driver is dead (Back Page)

THE driver of the pay-loader vehicle which crashed into a storey building at Santa Maria on Sunday night is reported to have died of his injuries.
The 50-year-old Kofi Kaya, who the police said hailed from the Ajumako area in the Central Region, reportedly died at 9.30 am on Monday, a day after the accident.
That brought to two the number of people who lost their lives in that crash.
The other deceased was 25-year-old Paul Akadaana, a kebab seller who operated his kebab joint at the spot where the accident occurred and who died at 3.00 am on Monday.
The Commander of the Odorkor Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) of the Ghana Police Service, ASP Felix Toya, said two other victims who sustained serious injuries were still in hospital but two others had been treated and discharged.
ASP Toya said among the two people who were still on admission was the driver’s mate whose name he could not readily provide.
After the long vehicle which was carrying a caterpillar grader crashed into the storey building on Sunday night, eyewitnesses told the Daily Graphic that the now deceased persons had their legs severed in addition to other injuries.
When the Daily Graphic team got to the crash scene around 8.30 am on Monday, the vehicle with registration number GT 857 W had its front part stuck in the first floor of the building which housed a number of stores. Close to it was a blue-black BMW saloon car with registration number GW2252 T, which was also badly damaged.
ASP Toya in an earlier interview said the driver’s mate whose condition had stabilised told the police that the vehicle suffered a brake failure.