One OF Ghana’s finest actors, Kwame Owusu Ansah, yesterday died at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra after sustaining serious injuries in a fatal accident on the Accra-Tema Motorway.

Doctors had worked around the clock to save the actor’s life, but to no avail. He passed away around 4.00 pm yesterday.

A source close to the late actor told BEATWAVES that the accident occurred during the wee hours of yesterday when his new Camry car traveling towards Tema allegedly run into a cargo truck that was being chased by the police on the highway.

The actor, who also featured in many Nigerian movies, was said to have sustained serious head injuries and was first admitted to the Tema General Hospital in a critical condition from where he was referred to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.

Kwame Owusu-Ansah, before his untimely death was lending support to the Ghana music industry to attain higher heights. He was part of Madhaus Incorporation, a new music label, which is a subsidiary of FNT Group of Companies.

He was the Media Director of the company, which has already signed artistes like Tinny, Bandana and Kwabena Kwabena on its label.