Monday, February 4, 2008

2 BIKES COLLIDE. One dead, 2 injured-Front Page lead- MIRROR

Story: Tim Dzamboe, Ho

One person died and two others seriously injured when two unregistered motorbikes crashed and later knocked down two pedestrians on a street of Kpedze in the Ho Municipality last Saturday.
The motor bikes were carrying two persons, that is the rider and a pillion or passenger when one of them being ridden by Amenuveve Akpah with Rasta as the pillion activated the trafficator that it was branching to the left side towards the Kpedze main lorry station.
Incidentally another unregistered motor bike with Tamador as rider and carrying Peter Ekow coming from the opposite direction allegedly on high speed ran into the first motorbike causing the rider and the pillion to fall.
Police investigations revealed that the motor bike went on to hit two other pedestrians Kudjovi Akome and Kassardjan into a gutter who sustained various degrees of injuries and were rushed to the Ho Municipal Hospital for treatment but Kassardjan died the next day and the body deposited at the mortuary.
The public relations officer of the Volta Regional police command, Inspector Joy Afagbedzi disclosed that Akome had been referred to the Volta Regional Hospital adding that Tamador was still at the municipal hospital responding to treatment.
He said the motor unregistered motor bikes had been impounded by the police while Akpah was in police custody and assisting in investigations.

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