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The surviving driver in a gory accident that claimed 34 lives has been sentenced to one year in prison. Appearing before a Cape Coast Circuit Court on Monday, Mark Mireku was found guilty on 34 counts of dangerous driving. The said accident happened at Dompoase on the Cape Coast-Takoradi Highway …

Residents of Amansie South District in the Ashanti region are living in fear and panic after three people, including the driver of the District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area, were shot in suspected armed robbery attack. New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman for Amansie West, Akwasi Abu, who disclosed this on Adom FM’s morning show Dwaso …

A commercial vehicle driver, Gbenga Ogungbemi, and his friend, Tosin Olbamoyo, have been arrested by men of the Ogun state police command for allegedly killing a businesswoman, Evelyn Ebere, and stealing her N400,000. A statement by the state police command spokesperson, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said Gbenga who usually takes the deceased to Ire-Ekiti …

Members of the National Concerned Drivers Association have threatened to increase transportation fares by the end of this week if the government does not reduce the price of fuel at the pumps with immediate effect. The association said its members have obeyed President Akufo-Addo’s directives of reducing the number of …

A commercial vehicle driver, Appau Atto, 30, is in the grips of the police at Akwadum, in the Eastern Region, for allegedly stabbing three passengers, resulting in the death of one last Sunday. The deceased, who was rushed to the Saint Joseph’s Hospital at Koforidua for treatment, was pronounced dead …

A taxi driver whose vehicle was impounded by security officials in Abuja, stripped naked to express his grieviances with the act. The taxi driver who disclosed that he is from Edo State, said hunger pushed him out of his home in spite of the lockdown order issued by President Buhari. …

A police officer got the shock of her life when a driver she stopped by the road, insisted she sanitized her hands before he would hand over his license for inspection. The incident which was caught on camera showed the police officer with a straight face as she repeatedly ordered …

  In what could have been a serious accident resulting in injuries and casualties, a truck driver averted the situation by saving commuters and pedestrians when his brakes failed him on the N1 motorway in front of the Royale Fiesta Hotel in Accra today. The driver in a bid to …

But for the intervention of eyewitnesses, a Hyundai Santa Fe would have burnt to ashes at Achimota mile 7 Friday morning. The car with registration number GW 6363-16 caught fire a few metres from the Achimota Mall but the driver, a middle-aged woman was able to escape without any injury. …

A policeman has shot a driver’s mate in the leg over an alleged refusal to pay bribe at a police barrier at Inchaban in the Western Region. The 25-year-old John Essandoh has since Friday when the incident happened, been transported to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra for the bullet …