In East Legon, “close the Omama shop,” two people have been burned to death in a vehicular accident.

Speaking on TV3, ADO1 Alex King Nartey of the Public Affairs Department of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) said the Saturday evening accident was as a result of “a head-on collision” of an Acura SUV and a Jaguar at “a T-junction”.

“Due to the collision, an electric pole was hit, causing the wires of the electric pole to fall on the car, starting a fire. Due to the collision, the two people [burned] were trapped in the vehicle and couldn’t come out,” he said.

“Even though they were totally burned beyond recognition, we figured [out] they were two ladies at the backseat,” he revealed.

The deceased females were “occupants of the Acura,” ADO1 Nartey said.

He added, “The [male] driver of the vehicle, I gathered, has been sent to hospital.”

Meanwhile, “the two other passengers of the Jaguar vehicle, also, survived and have been sent to hospital,” he noted.

ADO1 Alex King Nartey said personnel from the Ghana Police Service were of tremendous help to cordon off the accident site from the spectating crowd. 

Furthermore, “we had to call on our control room to alert ECG to cut power supply to the area because the wire that caused the fire was still lying on the floor and could have caused danger so we had to let ECG cut power to the area so we could adequately protect people from being injured by electrocution,” he said.

He noted personnel of the GNFS “had to be tactful,” retrieving the burned passengers from the Acura, so as “not to dismember their bodies” and, also, to maintain “respect for their bodies” seeing as some of some of their burned “flesh had melted onto the metal and seats making it difficult to get them out”.

After what could be retrieved was, ADO1 Alex King Nartey said the bodies were handed over to the police “for further investigation and autopsy”.

A GNFS Facebook video showed personnel hard at work to identify the charred cars and retrieve burned passengers – viewers discretion advised.

Meanwhile, a CCTV footage shows, the collision was not head-on as described by the GNFS executive. Rather, a white Jaguar on top speed crashed into the Acura from behind, while the latter waited to navigate the cross of the said T-junction at Omama, East Legon, Accra, Saturday, October 12, 2024.