STRAY DOG CAUSES DEATHS ON MOTORWAY

By Stephen Kwabena Effah
Wednesday, 09 January 2008

AN attempt by a driver to save the life of a stray dog early yesterday morning, resulted in the death of the two people on board his vehicle and the injury of a seven-month-old baby.

The accident which occurred at about 6 a.m. on the Tema motorway, involved three private cars whose occupants were going to work.

The cars, a black Opel Vectra with registration number GT 9981X, was travelling from Tema to Accra, while the other two cars, a Nissan Primera with registration number GT 62 X and another Opel a white Vectra GW8881 Q heading towards Tema from Accra.

The driver of the black Vectra was crossed by a dog at the Klagoon Underpass area of the motorway which he attempted to save but unfortunately hit it and lost control of the car, resulting in it somersaulting many times and skidding off into the other lane.

The two other cars that were travelling from Accra to Tema on seeing the black Vectra somersaulting, slowed down but were hit by the car and went off the road.

Briefing the Times, ASP Timothy Dassah, Unit Commander of the Ashaiman MTU, who confirmed the accident, said the three people in the Nissan Primera including a woman and her seven-month-old baby sustained injuries.

The baby is now in a critical condition and has been put on oxygen but the mother and the driver, together with the only passenger in the other white Vectra are responding to treatment at the Tema General Hospital.

ASP Dassah said the bodies of the two people who died on the spot have since been deposited at the Tema General Hospital morgue.