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GCB Driver Dies In Cash

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car accidentA DRIVER of the Ghana Commercial Bank, Bolgatanga branch, on Monday died on the spot when the bullion van he was driving to Navrongo collided head-on with a tractor on the Bolgatanga-Navrongo trunk road.

Mohammed Idrisu was conveying money from the Bolgatanga branch of the GCB to the Navrongo branch in a bullion van with registration number GT7731-10 under the guard of a Police Officer, Lance Corporal Ebenezer Odame and the bank’s own security man, Kennedy Yeboah.

The Police officer sustained injuries in the ribs, while the security man suffered from a fracture in the head. The tractor operator, Edward Kaba was said to be in coma at the hospital.

The Upper East Regional Police Commander of the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit, ASP Daniel Kwao Teye, who led a team of Police officers to the scene, confirmed these in an interview with The Chronicle, and said the two were rushed to the Regional Referral Hospital in Bolgatanga for treatment.

The tractor operator, Edward Kaba according to ASP Kwao Teye was also in critical condition. He said the tractor was loaded with cement which he suggested made the operator to lose control and subsequently collided with the van.

According to him, the bullion van and the tractor collided when the tractor operator veered off his lane and entered into the lane of the van.

In related developments, a motorbike rider on ignored the serine of an ambulance which was responding to an emergency and crossed the road at the time other road users had given way. In an attempt to avoid crashing into the rider, the driver of the ambulance crashed into a stationery tricycle. The motor rider fell off and hit himself hard on the ground and was taken to the hospital for treatment but was still in coma at time of filing this report on Monday.

Still last week, a motor rider on the Bawku road crashed into the rear of an articulate tract which was being checked at the custom barrier near Zuarungu. He also sustained a fracture on the leg and is being treated at the hospital.

Credit: William N-lanjerborr Jalulah & Odette OUEDRAOGO | www.thechronicleonline.com

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