Three people have perished and two others critically injured in an accident after their car ran into a stationary truck at Aprade Junction, near Kumasi.

They have been identified as Chief Executive of Accra-based Robliz Multimedia Productions, Robert Kwame Afful, who died on the spot with his mother-in-law, Mary Amponsah.

The third person, Nana Kwame, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Hospital.

The injured victims, Ivy Bekoe and Akwasi Gyambibi, are on admission at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital and KNUST Hospital respectively.

The five relatives were travelling from Accra in a Mercedes Benz car with registration GR 9252 T to attend the funeral of a relative in the Ashanti Region when the tragedy occurred at about 3:00 a.m. on Friday.

It took a combined rescue team of police, fire and emergency medical personnel to remove trapped survivors from the mangled car trapped under the truck with registration GR 2768-13 to hospital.

Ejisu District Motor, Traffic and Transport Division Commander, ASP George Owusu Aboagye, who explained the cause of the accident based on preliminary investigation said, “The driver of the Mercedes Benz car to some extent, I can say may he was may be sleeping because there was no sign of maybe brake marks or whatever. He just ran into the vehicle. Meanwhile, there was a triangle. Even though it was close to the vehicle, he could have at least braked so that the impact would not be too much.”

The two vehicles have been moved from the scene to open that busy highway to traffic, while the bodies of the deceased are deposited at the Juaben Government Hospital morgue awaiting autopsy.