A taxi, a saloon car, and a loaded tipper truck slammed into each other on one of the Brong-Ahafo Region’s busiest stretches of road Sunday morning, injuring multiple people during a church holiday that should have been anything but chaotic.
The Techiman-Kumasi corridor carries heavy commercial and passenger traffic year-round, and the Tadieso junction near the University of Education, Winneba’s Distance Learning Centre is a notorious pinch point where vehicles frequently jockey for position. Road safety advocates have repeatedly flagged the route as high-risk, yet accidents there continue to mount.
The smash happened around 10:00 a.m. as a rainstorm swept through the area, drastically reducing visibility and making the tarmac treacherous. Three vehicles — a Kia Picanto taxi (GS 3644-19), a Toyota Corolla saloon (GT 4164-20), and a tipper truck (GS 1139-25) — were all moving toward Kumasi when they collided. Eyewitnesses said the taxi had just finished a drop-off at the UEW learning centre, while the truck had set off from Techiman and the saloon was also bound for Kumasi.
Miraculously, no fatalities were recorded at the scene. Bystanders and emergency responders moved fast, ferrying the injured to Techiman Holy Family Hospital, where they received treatment for wounds described as varying in severity. Police officers deployed to the junction to control traffic and prevent the wreckage from causing secondary incidents along the busy highway.
Authorities have opened an investigation to establish exactly what triggered the chain reaction, though the timing — mid-downpour on a notoriously congested road — points to the familiar deadly combination of speed, wet roads, and reduced stopping distances. The crash lands at a moment when road safety campaigners are pushing the government to do more than issue post-accident advisories; they want physical interventions — better drainage, rumble strips, and enforceable speed limits — on corridors like Techiman-Kumasi that absorb enormous daily traffic loads.
Ghana’s roads claimed over 2,000 lives in 2024, and the rain-soaked start to this Palm Sunday suggests 2025 is not yet ready to reverse that grim trend.
Source: MyJoyOnline
