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The Odorkor Division of the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit of the Ghana Police has confirmed to Citi News that the owner of the truck that rammed some 11 vehicles Friday has turned himself in to the Police.
The owner of the vehicle, according to the Police, said he will assist in efforts capture the driver, Mohammed Iddi.
About 11 vehicles including two trucks crashed into each other in a near fatal motor accident on the George Walker Bush Motorway Friday night.
The driver of a DAF truck lost control of his vehicle when the brakes failed.
The driver of the fully loaded DAF truck and another occupant immediately fled the accident scene to avoid being lynched.
Abdulai Mumuni, who is with the Odorkor Division of the MTTU told Citi News the owners of five of the vehicles did not press charges because of the minimal damage done to their cars.
The motor crash, which occurred in front of the Bank of Africa – in between the Hong Kong Junction and the Kwashieman Intersection – was the first of its kind involving such number of vehicles in one accident since the newly-constructed Millennium Challenge Account-funded motorway was inaugurated early this year.
Most of the drivers, whose vehicles were involved in the accident, looked bewildered and left stranded deep into the wee hours of Saturday morning waiting for the Joint Police-Military Highway Patrol team to arrive to access the situation.
A heavy vehicular traffic built up all the way to the Lapaz end of the usually free-flowing motorway for well over five hours as the vehicles had to make do with only one lane of the three-lane motorway at the accident scene.
The US-funded George Walker Bush Motorway has recorded close to about 15 accidents in less than four months of its official opening with over 10 fatalities recorded.
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