Cargo Truck Skids Off Flyover At Nkrumah Circle Interchange

A cargo truck believed to be carrying gallons of engine oil on Friday night, June 11, 2021, skidded off one of the flyovers at the Nkrumah circle interchange in Accra. The incident, according to an eyewitness, occured around 9 pm and eyewitness also said, the Cargo truck started reversing midway into its journey when the driver tried

using the flyover from old Obra Spot towards Awudome stretch. The truck thus caused damage to the railings on the road also and skidded off, but no casualty was also recorded. In the process, the eyewitness said the two containers on the cargo truck with the registration number GT 8337 X, fell off, with the gallons spreading

on the road and at the time I saw the cargo truck, it was stationary and then it suddenly started reversing then it reversed to the edge of the overpass, destroyed the railings and the two containers it was carrying fell off, he said. The Police and the Fire Service personnel were deployed to the scene to clear the truck off the road.

Similar incidents in the past

This is the third time such an incident has been recorded on the same stretch.

The first one occured in March 2017

In that incident, three persons were also rushed to the hospital then after sustaining injuries when the cargo container truck fell off the overpass. The DAF truck with registration number GT 5557 - 11, which at the time was carrying two containers loaded with bags of rice and

sugar, was climbing the flyover from the Old Obra Spot stretch of the road when it tumbled through the railings with the head, with one of the containers crashing down onto two stationary buses, flattening one and grazing the other.

The second one was recorded in May 2019

The truck in question was headed towards Kaneshie when the incident occurred. An eyewitness too said the cargo truck was carrying raw materials for production of diapers and sanitary pads. According to eyewitness,

the driver of the vehicle lost control of the truck while trying to use the overpass, but the heavy load too made steering of the truck also difficult. The truck fell on the passenger side of the vehicle and the driver was the only person in the vehicle.