“I heard a very loud sound on the bridge, I thought it was thunder. The sound was very loud and scary. So we got to the overhead and I saw the huge truck lying on its side…. The driver was the only one in the vehicle. The load was very heavy and it made the climbing difficult for the driver. It is unclear if the driver had been taken to the hospital, but he said he was okay.”
“I understand the truck was carrying raw materials for pampers and sanitary pads,” an eyewitness said.
This is not the first time such an incident had occurred on the stretch.
In March 2017, three persons were rushed to the hospital following injuries they sustained as a container truck fell off the Kwame Nkrumah Circle interchange.
The DAF truck with registration number GT 5557 – 11 carrying two containers loaded with bags of rice and sugar, was reported to be climbing the interchange from the Silver Cup end of the road when it tumbled through the railings with the head and one of the containers crashing down onto two stationary buses, flattening one and grazing the other.
