2016 Ghana bus collision

At least 53 people were killed and 23 others were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Ghana on 18 February 2016. The government-operated bus was heading to Tamale when it collided head-on with the cargo truck, which was carrying tomatoes, near the town of Kintampo on Wednesday evening. According to Christopher Tawiaha, regional police, spokesman said: “It was very serious … we had to use chainsaws to cut through parts of the mangled bus to get bodies and survivors out.