Driver Crashes Police Officer To Death On Kintampo-Tamale Highway

Sergeant Solomon Amuure of the Ghana Police Service on Sunday, August 23, 2020, met his untimely death after a reckless driver crashed him on the Kintampo Tamale Highway. The driver, Kagambega Zacharia was headed for the Burkina Faso from Tema with a Daf XF

cargo truck with registration number 11 JP 9534 which was loaded with playing cards and lighters. Upon reaching a section of the road at Kadelso barrier on the Highway, the driver veered off from his lane to the nearside when facing the Tamale direction and fell on Sergent Solomon Amuure sho sustained multiple body

fractures. The victim was rescued and rushed to Buipe polyclinic for treatment but died while receiving treatment. His body has since been deposited at the Kintampo Municipal Hospital morgue for preservation and autopsy. The driver after the incident is reported to have taken to his heels to avoid been arrested but police reveal that efforts are underway to apprehend him.