According to available information, the pick-up vehicle with registration number GC 9888-20 was driving from Obuasi direction towards Dunkwa with four persons on board at about 6:40 p.m on Saturday.The driver, on reaching a section of the road at the outskirts of Adinkra, allegedly attempted to overtake another vehicle.
The deceased include the driver of the pick-up vehicle identified as Alhaji Mustapha Iddrisu, aged 50.Seventeen others who are in critical condition are on admission at the Obuasi Government and Anglogold Ashanti hospitals.
Ashanti Regional Commander of the Police Motor, Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD), Superintendent Emmanuel Adu Boahen said,“This is an avoidable accident. This nasty scenario could have been avoided had the driver of the pick-up exercised a little patience."
The bodies of the deceased have also been deposited at the hospital for autopsy and burial.
But in the process veered off his lane and collided with the Sprinter bus with registration number AW 6620-13.The bus had about 18 passengers onboard.
