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On the 27th September, 2017, I had a journey from Tepa to Kumasi. Early
in the morning about seven O'clock, after all preparations, i walked from
my house to Tepa main station and boarded a Benz bus with the
registration number AS 3571 A, which was bound for Kumasi.
At eight O'clock in the morning, the journey started with thirty-three
passengers on the bus. In the initial stages of the journey the bus was
moving at a rate of sixty kilometres per hour which all the passengers
accepted. After travelling for fifteen kilometres, we got to the highway
linking Sunyani and Kumasi. The driver then accelerated and for about
twenty-five kilometres the rate of speed was one hundred and eighty
kilometres per hour. Almost all the passengers on the bus complained
vehemently and asked the driver to reduce the speed, but the driver
proved recalcitrant. His lame reason was that he wanted to reach Kumasi
within one hour so as to meet the owner of the bus who was supposed to
leave that day for United States of America. The passengers opposed this
reason and even threatened to report him to the nearest Police Station,
but all attempt to get him to comply proved fiasco. We later found out
that the driver was intoxicated.
After forty-five kilometres from the origin of the journey, about a quarter
of a kilometre from Abesewa, the bus had a fatal accident which claimed
the lives of all the passengers with the exception of me. The driver was
negotiating a sharp curve at a terrific speed. Unknown to the driver was
the fact that there was a stationary timber truck which was carrying logs.
The stationary timber truck had had a breakdown and so it was parked
just at the curve without any warning sign. By the time the driver saw the
danger ahead, it was too late to save the situation because of the high rate
of speed at which the bus was moving. The bus ran into the stationary
timber truck with logs. The logs were forced to fall on the bus killing all
the passengers. Mysteriously, i was hurled to the bush when the two
vehicles collided. When i regained consciousness i was in the bush
panting with three men standing by me.
The impact and noise of the collision was so great that it attracted the
attention of the people of the nearby town Abesewa. The dead people
together with me, were driven in another car to Okomfo Anokye Teaching
Hospital in Kumasi, where the dead were deposited at the mortuary.
I sustained light injuries, so i was treated and discharged on the same day.
To my surprise, i woke up from bed and realised it was a dream.
Thanks for your time.
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