On Sunday at about 8:15 am, Mr Asupah Kwame, 25, driver of a Ford transit bus with registration No. GJ 729-21 with 17 passengers on board travelling from Accra to Kpassa on reaching a section of the road between Asikuma and Peki on the Asikuma -Kpeve highway burst a tyre.
The vehicle veered into the opposite lane and crashed head-on with an Apsonic motorbike with registration No. M-22 VR 4 ridden by General Constable Richard Dadzie with pillion rider G/Cpl. Evans Quansah, all of Peki Police Station who were on their way to the Police checkpoint at Opokuase near Asikuma junction.
The vehicle and the motorbike somersaulted and landed in the offside bush when facing Peki direction.
The two Police officers, three male and one female passenger on board the ford transit bus, died on the spot.
The injured passengers on board the vehicle, including the driver, were rushed to the Peki Government Hospital for medical attention.
Meanwhile, the bodies of the deceased have been deposited at the same hospital morgue for identification, preservation and autopsy.
