Mark Mireku, a driver of one of the buses involved in the deadly crash at Domopoase in the Central Region, has been jailed for one year.

He was sentenced on June 8, 2020, by the Cape Coast Circuit Court, the Ghana Police Service said on Thursday, June 11.

Mark, 45, was jailed on 34 counts each of dangerous driving and banned from operating as a commercial driver for life.

Mark Mireku has also been fined ¢17,280 or will in default serve jail time on 18 counts each of negligently causing harm.

The driver was trying to over-take another vehicle wrongly, thereby colliding with an oncoming bus and killing 34 persons at Dompoase on the Accra-Elimina Highway in the Central Region on January 14, 2020.

But charges of manslaughter are pending against the convict at the High Court, according to police.

The National Road Safety Authority began investigations into the road crash but is yet to make its findings known.

Its probe was expected to inform the next line of remedial actions and measures to prevent future instances of such road crashes.

The Road Safety Authority also disclosed that plans are in place to efficiently regulate the operations of commercial road transport organizations.

The statement published by the police added that some 13,000 high-risk commercial drivers will be trained in an effort to prevent future occurrences of such fatal incidents.

Crashes are common on highways in the West African country because of poor maintenance, disregard for traffic regulations, and bad roads.

An average of six people reportedly dies daily on Ghana’s roads.

In March 2020, 35 people died in a similar crash involving two buses on a busy road in the country’s Bono East Region.