Five members of a family of six, traveling from Kumasi to Cape Coast in a Toyota Camry saloon car, died on the spot when their vehicle collided with a Dad Truck at Assin-Anyinabrim in the Assin South District of the Central Region.
The gory accident happened at 1106 hours Saturday, and the only survivor is in critical condition at the St. Francis Xavier Hospital in Assin-Fosu.
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The Toyota Camry, with registration number WR 28-14, collided with the Dad Truck, registered GN 9828-20, which was heading the opposite direction.
In an interview with the Ghana News Agency, Assistant Divisional Officer II, Abdul Wasiu Hudu, the Central Regional Public Relations Officer of the Ghana National Fire Service, confirmed the accident.
He said it took a combined team of police and fire service personnel to cut and remove the bodies from the mangled saloon car.
The bodies of the victims have been deposited at the mortuary of the same hospital.
