An accident involving a motorbike and a timber truck on Begoro-Ahonam road has killed a 27-year-old man, raising public safety concern over increasing road traffic accidents in the Eastern Region.

The man reportedly died after running into the stationary timber trailer loaded with five logs, the Begoro Police said.

The police said they received information about the accident along Begoro-Ahonam road on April 20 at about 2100 hours.

Police officers then proceeded to the scene of the accident, where they discovered a lifeless body of a male adult in a pool of blood.

The Public Relations Officer of the Eastern Regional Police Command, Sergeant Francis Gomado, told the Ghana News Agency that the police also observed that a timber trailer with registration number GT 2899-Q loaded with five timber logs was parked at the opposite lane while a Houjin motorbike was found lying under the truck.

The Police said investigations revealed that on April 20 at about 1900 hours, the deceased known as Gabriel Argmor aged 27 was riding an unregistered Houjin motorbike from Ahonam towards Akoradako and ran into the rear portion of the stationary timber trailer and died instantly.

Sergeant Gomado said the body was removed and deposited at Begoro District Hospital mortuary for preservation and autopsy.

He said the motorbike was impounded by the Police and awaiting testing and examination by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority.

A 22-year-old man has died after he slipped and fell into an abandoned galamsey pit at Akyem Apampatia in the Atiwa West District of the Eastern Region.

According to sources, the incident happened at about 12 am when the deceased together with other young men went to an illegal mining site in search of gold.

Acting Eastern Regional Police PRO, Sergeant Francis Gomado in a statement said the police in Akyem Kwabeng received a call that a male adult had fallen into a mining pit at Apampatia.

According to the sitrep, a team of Police officers rushed to the scene and found the mining pit full of water.

It said, “Divers swam into the mining pit and retrieved the lifeless body of the male adult identified as Nicholas Bokom aged 22”.

It added that the body of deceased was carefully inspected but there were no physical marks of violence to suggest foul play.

The remains of Nicholas Bokom, has since been deposited at the CHAD morgue in Ankaase for preservation autopsy.

Police in the Eastern Region has admitted they have not yet taken witness statements of prime suspects in an ambulance robbery incident that occurred last week Thursday.

Although there have been calls on the Police service to bring the perpetrators to book, one of the prime suspects, identified as Priscilla, told JoyNews the police have failed to contact her six days after the incident.

Speaking on News Nite Wednesday, Acting Eastern Regional Police PRO Francis Gomado told Emefa Apawu they are yet to speak to the victims involved.

“If you should even give all of them, we will still take a statement on all of them but some will find themselves in a place that maybe it will be very difficult to reach them,” he said.

Even though he indicated that there were over 30 victims, not even one had been contacted so far.

Explaining the reason behind the delay, Mr Gomado who agreed the death of the driver is alarming said, “it doesn’t lie on the police officer alone to do all.”

The driver of the ambulance, Abraham Tetteh was shot multiple times and a female paramedic was sexually assaulted while conveying a pregnant woman from the Akuse Government Hospital to the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua after suffering complications in labour.