Pillion rider crushed to death

Story: Benjamin Xornam Glover, Bolgatanga A young lady in her early twenties was on Sunday night at around 7pm crushed to death after an articulated truck with registration number GR 4871 X loaded with goods ran over her on the Zuarungu-Bolgatanga road. The deceased, who name the police, gave as Adongo Azure was a pillion rider and was not in a helmet when the accident occurred. They were moving from Zuarungu towards Bolgatanga when they collided with another unregistered Apsonic motor bicycle which was moving in the opposite direction. According to the Regional Commander of the Police Motor Traffic and Transport Unit, Assistant Superintendent of Police, (ASP), Mr Daniel Kwao Teye, said the unregistered Apsonic motor bicycle, was overtaking the articulated truck but in the process collided with the other motor cycle and in the process throwing the decease under the moving Bawku bound truck. The truck crushed the decease head and the remains have since been deposited at the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital Mortuary, pending further investigation by the police. The Upper East Regional has for the first quarter of the year 2013 recorded 14 deaths due to road accidents compared to `15 death recorded for the same period in 2012. ASP Teye said between April 1 to 15 this year, three deaths has been recorded on the roads, adding that numerous educational campaigns including the need for riders to wear crash helmets have gone unheeded. He however gave the assurance that the police will not relent in its efforts including effecting arrest and processing offenders for courts to curb such needless deaths. He also urged politicians, chiefs and opinion leaders to give the police the freehand to operate as per the law and stop interceding and pleading for road traffic offenders after they have been arrested by the police. -End- Benjamin.glover@graphic.com.gh