An accident on the Suhum side of the Accra-Kumasi Road left a trail of heavy traffic on both sides of the corridor with drivers and passengers frustrated for several hours.

A trailer with registration number from Nigeria, LSD-474XK was carrying cargo bound for Kumasi and was "enroute to Burkina Faso to make deliveries", when the accident occurred, the driver Oge Kobo said.

The driver in his attempt to avoid collision with an oncoming vehicle swiftly applied his brakes and in the process skidded off the road leaving its trailer on the main section of the stretch located between the overhead on the Suhum section of the road and a fuel station. 

The accident left many of the road users of that stretch stranded.

The situation was only salvaged by the Suhum MTTD Police and Road Safety Management Services Limited which deployed its heavy duty tow truck to help improve the traffic situation.

The team led by Superintendent Ahmed Yahaya called for further assistance from Road Safety Management Services Limited after several failed attempts by smaller tow trucks to remove the trailer from the road.

The incident highlighted the need for a National Towing Project as stipulated in the Road Traffic Act, 2180.

The high number of casualties in some accidents are believed to be as a result of the prevalence of bus breakdowns on major roads.

According to the National Road Safety Commission, 22 percent of fatalities on the roads are caused by such broken-down and disabled vehicles.

Operations Manager of Road Safety Management Services, Ing. Kwadwo Osei said "the deployment of the state of the art tow trucks were crucial and timely in helping reduce the level of traffic caused by the accident."

Ing. Osei said the timely removal and towing of such cars are important in reducing deaths caused by crashes on Ghana's roads.