Five people died when a Toyota RAV 4 vehicle collided head-on with a Bajaj tricycle on the Sunyani-Berekum Highway on Thursday August 29.

The crash, according to a reliable police source, occurred around 2200 hours and the bodies had since been deposited at the Sunyani Teaching Hospital mortuary for preservation and autopsy.

The Toyota RAV 4 with registration number GE 6611-20 was traveling from Ayakomaso to Dumasua on the stretch, and reaching a section of road at Mantukwa, it collided with the tricycle, with registration number M-24-BR 1793.

Five of the eight occupants in the tricycle were pronounced dead by Dr Alex Asamoah who was on duty at the Accident and Emergency Unit of the Teaching Hospital while the three others are said to be in critical condition, responding to treatment at the hospital.

According to the police source, the driver of the RAV 4 vehicle, one Jerry Ohene Acquah, 42 years, who also sustained serious chest injuries, reported the crash to the police, and was issued with a police medical form.

He is also responding to treatment at the same hospital, the source stated, saying efforts were being made to trace the relations of the deceased.

Meanwhile, two people, a male and female, died in a gory crash which happened at Amanfoso on the same highway in the early hours of Saturday August 31, 2024.

The Ghana News Agency (GNA) gathered that the crash happened when an OA Bus with registration number GR5768-18, which was heading to Berekum ran over a motorbike the deceased were riding, coming from the opposite direction.

Eyewitness account revealed the driver of the OA bus attempted to overtake a vehicle and in the process ran over the motorbike, killing the two instantly.

Their bodies had been deposited at a mortuary in Sunyani.

GNA