Lucky escape: Van, truck diving into the river a few minutes apart

Regional News from Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Source: Myjoyonline.com

2019-06-04

The timely intervention of Esereso residents in the Ashanti region averted a catastrophe, as a pbadenger van collapsed into a stream leaving a dozen children trapped under a bridge Monday night .

The Pregio soldier turned his way down the road and landed in the narrow river at a point called School Junction, but volunteers rescued the occupants, including the children, before the firefighters arrived.

A few minutes after the residents conducted the rescue efforts to save the victims, a dump truck with brakes that failed also sank into the river. – lack of accuracy a small crowd of residents who had gathered at the edge of the river to watch the children be saved from the van.

The trucker, in a gesture of bravery, signaled to many spectators who had gathered near the river to pbad to safety, thus saving many lives from what could have been crushed.

An eyewitness, Nana Adu, explained that the driver of the truck had made warning the small gathering near the river.

"It was scary to see the bus plunged into the river with children aboard.Residents rushed to rescue the pbadengers, mostly children.A few minutes later we saw a dump truck heading in the same direction, the driver signaling the spectators to run away was scary, "he said.

Some residents attribute to the contractor responsible for the rehabilitation work on the road to Lake Bosomtwe-Atonsu almost fatal accidents.

Residents want the government to push the contractor to speed up the work to prevent this from happening again.