A tanker fully loaded with Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) has overturned on the Accra-Tema motorway, one of the busiest roads in the Republic of Ghana, posing danger to motorists.
The tanker with registration number GN 4513-21 went for the load from Half Assini in the Western Region and was heading to Tema when it overturned on the section of the motorway close to the Adjiringanor police station along the motorway.
When energynewsafrica.com got to the scene, personnel from the Motorway Fire Service were at the spot to ensure the area was safe for motorists.
Fire service personnel at the scene and some members of the Gas Tanker Drivers Union were seen supervising the discharging of the gas into an empty gas tanker.
Narrating how the accident happened to energynewsafrica.com, the driver of the gas tanker, who gave his name as Kobby, said on reaching a section of the motorway where the tanker overturned at about midnight, there was another truck moving in the other lane and kept veering off into his lane.
He said his continuous tooting the horn of his truck to alert the other driver of the seeming danger he was causing yielded no effort.
At that point, he said he realised that the driver could be napping behind the steering wheel and, therefore, applied the brakes but the truck overturned as a result of the slippery nature of the road in the raining night.
The spokesman for the Fire Service Personnel at the scene, Samuel Nartey, said they received a call at about 1 am and on reaching the scene, where they observed that the tanker was fully loaded with the flammable material, they quickly detected for leakage to block it to avert any possible explosion.
The incident has created a terrible traffic situation on the Accra-Tema section of the Motorway.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com
