Two back-up vehicles in the convoy of the First Lady, Mrs Ernestina Naadu Mills, were yesterday involved in an accident on the Mampong-Ejura road in the Ashanti Region.
The vehicles collided with an articulated truck which had allegedly ignored a traffic regulation to slow down in a bend and was overtaking another vehicle on the outskirts of Timber Nkwanta, near Bobin, around 11 a.m. when it was raining.
The First Lady was on her way to Ejura to attend the annual conference of the National Baptist Ministers’ Wives Fellowship.
Four people, including the two drivers of the accident vehicles, sustained minor injuries and were sent to the Mampong Hospital for medical attention.
The Secretary to the First Lady, who was in one of the vehicles, did not sustain any physical injury but complained of headache.
The First Lady’s vehicle was not involved in the accident, since it had taken the lead and the two accident vehicles were back-ups.
The two back-up vehicles were a Landcruiser V8 and a Landcruiser Prado, both black in colour.
The Prado was badly damaged in the front from the engine to the windscreen, while the V8 was dented on the sides. The two front tyres of the Prado also got burst.
Eyewitnesses said the articulated truck driver lost control on seeing the convoy vehicles and completely blocked the road with one side of the truck. That resulted in the Landcruiser Prado running into the side of the truck head-on.
In an attempt to avoid running into the Prado on the right, the driver of the V8 swerved to the left and skidded off the road but he managed to control the vehicle on the edge of the road, denting the sides of the vehicle in the drain.
The airbags in the two vehicles saved the occupants.
The driver of the articulated truck has since been taken into police custody to assist with investigations.
Surprisingly, the articulated truck had different registration numbers at the front and at the back. It had AS 1322 G at the front and AS 1321 G at the back..
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