One person is feared dead with others sustaining various degrees of injuries as a result of an accident that happened at Ekumfi Dunkwaw on the Apam-Mankesim highway in the Central Region.
The accident occurred at around 4:30am on Saturday.
Driver of a Tema-Cape Coast bound Toyota mini bus with registration number GN 9218- 21 attempted to overtake its leading vehicle whilst approaching a sharp curve.
According to some of the victims who spoke to Adom News, the family of eight was attending a funeral in Cape Coast and was a little behind the hearse carrying the corpse of the deceased.
They said the driver, whilst overtaking a leading vehicle, saw another vehicle approaching from the other section of the road and in an attempt to avoid a head on collision veered of the shoulder of the road and crashed into a tree causing the vehicle to fall sideways.
The driver is currently in a critical condition. His conductor and the Tema family of eight have been rushed to the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital.
Some of the victims explained how the accident happened:
SOURCE: Kofi Adjei