A 34-year-old conductor, Seidu Mumuni is feared dead after an Accra-bond Kia truck fell on him at Damongo in the West Gonja Municipality of the Savannah Region.
Police accounts say the deceased was in the bucket of the truck watching over bags of charcoal.
Upon reaching Canteen Junction in the municipality, the driver lost control of the vehicle when he attempted negotiating a curve around the hill resulting the casualty.
JoyNews sources at Damongo Police station indicated that the driver, Fadalheed Karim after reporting the incident, bolted and is currently wanted.
The deceased who suffered from a fractured neck was pronounced dead on reaching the West Gonja Hospital.
The body has since been deposited at the Hospital Mortuary for identification and burial.
Meanwhile, a source close to the police revealed that the truck which left Damongo township at dawn was attempting to outsmart the task force by not paying the mandatory GHS1,000 levy per truck and GHS50 per bag of charcoal announced by the Savannah Regional House of Chiefs aimed at banning the product.
While confirming the incident to Joynews, the Savannah Regional Motor Traffic and Transport Department, (MTTD) Officer, Corporal Offori Achempong Donaldson said his outfit would start arresting and prosecuting recalcitrants drivers for overloading in the region.
According to him, "I had a call that a Driver came to the station and reported an accident case. So, I rushed here and saw this truck down with the Charcoal scattered on the road."
"But I didn't see the driver and his mate it was later I heard the mate was covered by the about 500 bags of charcoal, you see, and am told the driver mate died and his driver after reporting to Police too, escaped and is on the run but we will get him," he said.
But it took the intervention of a private towing truck to transport the vehicle to the Regional Police Command after fruitless by personnel from the Ghana National Fire Service to get the vehicle off the road.
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