A Kia truck loaded with yams collided with a VIP bus at Osino in the Fanteakwa South District of the Eastern Region in the early hours of Wednesday, July 22, leaving several passengers injured.

The crash occurred at about 4:30 a.m. near the Osino Clinic entrance, close to the Misa Filling Station, along the Kumasi-Accra highway.

Some of the injured are receivng treatment at the Osino Clinic for emergency treatment, while others were transferred to the Osiem Hawa Memorial Hospital for further medical care. In the same development, an accident which occurred on Monday, July 20, claimed the lives of three people and left eleven others injured.

The accident involved a head-on collision between a Toyota Isuzu pickup truck with registration number GE 1361-25 and a Toyota Voxy with registration number CN 478-26 at Ajumako Kokoben in the Central Region.

Preliminary investigations by the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) indicate that the Toyota Voxy was allegedly overtaking another vehicle at high speed when poor visibility caused by dust resulted in a collision with the oncoming Toyota Isuzu pickup truck.

Bystanders rescued seven victims before firefighters arrived at the scene and rescued four others who had been trapped in one of the vehicles. The injured persons were handed over to a medical team for treatment.

The Ghana Police Service has commenced investigations to determine the full circumstances that led to the crash. The latest accident comes barely four days after another road crash involving two cargo trucks at Asuboi on the Accra–Kumasi Highway in the Eastern Region, which claimed two lives and left two others injured.

The crash involved a Hyundai truck with registration number GX 7359-14 and a KIA Rhino with registration number GX 857-16.

In a related incident last week, thirteen people were feared dead and several others injured following a collision involving three vehicles at Odumase, near Konongo, on the Kumasi–Accra Highway in the Ashanti Region. The vehicles involved were a tomato-laden cargo truck, a passenger bus, and a fuel tanker.

According to eyewitnesses, the collision occurred after one of the vehicles attempted to overtake another vehicle. The injured victims were subsequently transported to nearby health facilities for medical attention.

In another incident, a fatal road accident involving a Toyota Voxy on the Sefwi Wiawso–Asawinso Highway in the Western North Region left one person dead and several others critically injured on Thursday, July 9.

According to eyewitnesses, the accident occurred after the commercial Toyota Voxy attempted to swerve potholes on the highway. Ghana has reported a surge in road crash fatalities this year.

In June, six people were confirmed dead and 34 others injured in multiple road traffic accidents across the Volta Region on Sunday, June 21.

The first set of incidents occurred along the Todome stretch near Kpeve on the Peki–Kpeve Road and involved two simultaneous crashes. One of the crashes involved a MAN Diesel TGS truck with registration number GT 9993-18 and a Toyota Camry with registration number GE 735-14.

The second incident involved a Metro Mass Transit bus with registration number AS 4984-09, which was travelling from Accra to Dambai.

A few weeks earlier, a road crash on the Peki–Asikuma Highway in the Volta Region claimed 15 lives and left 25 others injured on Tuesday, June 2.

The two commercial vehicles, which were carrying a total of 40 passengers, collided, resulting in multiple fatalities and injuries.

"When they got there, they realised that the two vehicles had been involved in a head-on collision. Preliminary investigations at the scene suggest that there were 40 occupants in the two vehicles," he told Citi News.