A pregnant women and a police sergeant met their untimely death when they were run over by a water tanker and a salon car respectively. Whereas the unidentified six or so month-pregnant woman died when she was hit by a water tanker on the median of the dual carriageway at the Dzorwulu traffic light intersection Monday morning, Sergeant Francis Baah Basten aka Abiola, on the other hand died instantly when he was knocked down by a VW Passat saloon car and run over by another vehicle, when he was crossing the road in front of the Ghana Telecom University College last Thursday night. Sgt. Basten was on his way to his duty post at a bank in Akweteman when he met his untimely death. He was crossing the road towards Achimota when he was knocked down by a speeding VW car with registration number GS 1574 Y, the impact of which threw him some distance away from the scene. The place was dark because there were no lights, and another vehicle, a Mercedes Benz 207 also speeding along the road, ran over him. A crowd gathered at the scene as frantic efforts were made by some personnel of the Tesano Police Station to get an ambulance to convey the Sergeant to hospital. ASP Mary Attoh Annang of the Tesano Police told Daily Guide that not even their appeals to commercial drivers to convey the Sergeant to hospital could yield fruits. The driver of the VW car, who was said to have turned himself in, was detained as investigations continued into the case. The deceased left behind a widow and three children. The pregnant woman was knocked down by a water tanker, as she stood on the median opposite the Word Miracle Church International at the Dzorwulu junction waiting for the road to be cleared of oncoming vehicles. Narrating the incident to Daily Guide newspaper, an eyewitness, Franklin Osei-Owusu said the woman, who appeared to be in her thirties, had just crossed the lane in front of the Church and was waiting on the median of the Olusegun Obasanjo Way to allow vehicles coming from the Pig Farm side to pass before venturing to the other side, when she met her untimely death. He said the driver of the water tanker with registration number GT 7866 F, who was driving at top speed, veered off his lane to the other to avoid crashing into four cars ahead. "As he tried to avoid an accident, the tanker driver veered onto the median where the woman stood, knocking her down and colliding with a Mazda Urvan with registration number GE 885 X and a Ford with registration number GE 2851 Y," he said. A Community Policeman on duty at the traffic intersection had stopped the vehicles at the time as he directed vehicular traffic because the lights were not functioning. Others sustained various degrees of injury during the accident and were conveyed alongside the deceased to the 37 Military Hospital. Source: Daily Guide