An articulated truck this morning run over some pedestrians at Santasi in Kumasi, killing a ten-year-old school girl on the spot and injuring twelve others. Five of the injured are in critical condition at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) while the body of the deceased had been deposited at the morgue. The victims were waiting to catch a bus to school when the accident occurred at about 7:00a.m. The vehicle, with registration number AS 5018 -12 was said to be traveling towards the Obuasi direction of the Kumasi-Obuasi road. Eyewitnesses said the driver appeared to have lost control and run into the school children. They said upon reaching the Santasi township, the truck first hit another truck carrying sachet water, before veering off the road to run over the school children and some by-standers. It took the intervention of Fire Service personnel to help rescue the injured some of whom are women who sell bread at the Santasi area and were trapped in the wreckage. The vehicle according to sources belongs to Isaac Owusu Company Limited.