The killing of a teenage student on the Madina-Adentan stretch of the N4 Highway in the Greater Accra region has triggered fresh outrage.

Angry residents have set car tyres ablaze in the middle of the road, and billows of smoke clutch the atmosphere; making the Highway with a 100km/hr speed limit unpassable.

“No more deaths!” The residents have been chanting following the accident which occurred at about 4 pm on Thursday.

The accident becomes the 195^th knockdown recorded on the stretch in 2018 alone. The latest fatality is a first-year female student of the West Africa Senior High School (WASS).

She is reportedly a student on the second batch of SHS students known as the Gold Track and had gone to register for the beginning of her academic experience at the second-cycle school.

But a taxi driver rammed into the teenager, who is yet to be identified, after she had left the campus and attempted to cross the deadly Highway. She died on the spot and the driver reported himself to the police.

The footbridge which should have aided pedestrians to cross without risking their lives remains uncompleted, traffic lights on the road are faulty and no road signs are on the highway, making it the deadliest in Accra.

Officers of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) were on the scene to fight the fire while the police are at the scene to control the irate residents.

There is a gridlock on the road as one part of the traffic flow has been closed due to the action of the angry residents.

A handful of initial police deployment were no match for the vengeful mob. But reinforcements arrived moments later. Gunshots from the police pierced a car, injuring a woman and her son.

The mob pelted the officers with stones. “They (stones) are flying from all directions” Joy News’ Komla Adom reported. The police officers are firing gunshots in reply, our reporter on the scene stressed.

Below are pictures and videos from the scene.