The Deputy Upper East Regional Minister, Mrs Lucy Awuni, and a team of journalists last Thursday survived an accident when her official vehicle veered off the road and somersaulted three times at Binduri, near Bawku.
The deputy minister, in the company of National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) officials and the press, was on her way to Garu Tempane to inspect buildings damaged by a rainstorm.
A reporter of the Daily Graphic, Mr Alhandu Abdul-Hamid, one of the four journalists on the accident vehicle, a Toyota Landcruiser GXR V8, with registration number UE 3 -10, who survived the accident, said the deputy minister’s driver, who tried overtaking the NADMO vehicle which was leading the convoy, veered off the road and the vehicle somersaulted three times.
He said the Upper East Regional Correspondent of Metro Television, Mr Abdulai Issaka, had to break the windscreen of the vehicle with his hands for those in the car to escape. In the process, Mr Issaka sustained some cuts.
Mr Issaka later indicated that but for the airbags in the vehicle, the occupants would have been exposed to great danger.
The Regional Correspondent of the Ghanaian Times, Alhaji Ibrahim Mohammed, also sustained minor injuries.
The timely intervention by inhabitants of Binduri and the NADMO officials saved the deputy minister, whose legs were trapped under the seats of the vehicle.
Mrs Awuni, who was rushed to the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital, is on admission but in stable condition, while the press men, as well as the driver and the security escort, have been treated and discharged.
The deputy minister, in the company of National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO) officials and the press, was on her way to Garu Tempane to inspect buildings damaged by a rainstorm.
A reporter of the Daily Graphic, Mr Alhandu Abdul-Hamid, one of the four journalists on the accident vehicle, a Toyota Landcruiser GXR V8, with registration number UE 3 -10, who survived the accident, said the deputy minister’s driver, who tried overtaking the NADMO vehicle which was leading the convoy, veered off the road and the vehicle somersaulted three times.
He said the Upper East Regional Correspondent of Metro Television, Mr Abdulai Issaka, had to break the windscreen of the vehicle with his hands for those in the car to escape. In the process, Mr Issaka sustained some cuts.
Mr Issaka later indicated that but for the airbags in the vehicle, the occupants would have been exposed to great danger.
The Regional Correspondent of the Ghanaian Times, Alhaji Ibrahim Mohammed, also sustained minor injuries.
The timely intervention by inhabitants of Binduri and the NADMO officials saved the deputy minister, whose legs were trapped under the seats of the vehicle.
Mrs Awuni, who was rushed to the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital, is on admission but in stable condition, while the press men, as well as the driver and the security escort, have been treated and discharged.
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