By Nicholas Osei-Wusu
One person has died, with 30 others injured and receiving emergency medical care at the Living Waters Hospital near Ejisu in the Ashanti Region, in an accident in which the vehicles they were travelling in collided head-on.
Among the injured is a final-year student of Yaa Asantewaa Girls’ Senior High School who was returning to school after vacation from Dwenase. She is responding very well to treatment.
Another final-year student of the Ntotroso Nursing College in the Ahafo Region was travelling for duty at the Ejisu Government Hospital, where she is pursuing her clinicals. At the time our correspondent was leaving the hospital at about 1 p.m., the Medical Director said she needed to be sent to the theatre for further care.
The accident occurred at about 11:30 a.m., Monday, January 12, 2026, in front of the GOIL service station at Ejisu Krapa in the Ashanti Region.
It involved two minibuses: a Toyota van with registration number AS 3552-20, said to be travelling from Ejisu towards Kumasi, and a Ford Transit minivan with registration number AW 3264-21, which was moving in the opposite direction.
An eyewitness, Gausu Musah, told GBC that the Urvan bus allegedly developed a brake failure while descending the road from the Ejisu direction and crashed into the oncoming Ford minivan, which also had passengers on board.
The accident resulted in the partial mangling of both vehicles, with varied degrees of injuries to passengers on board both vehicles.
A colleague driver of the Toyota Urvan bus, Atta Stephen, was shocked that the incident occurred just a few minutes after the Urvan had left the station at Ejisu.
The victims were rushed to the nearby Living Waters Hospital for emergency treatment.
Records at the hospital showed that a total of 31 victims of the accident were injured and sent to the facility for emergency care.
According to the Medical Director of the hospital, Dr. Gabriel Sekyi Kwoffie, 11 of them, whose conditions were critical, were at the theatre at the time GBC arrived, with the majority of the patients in stable condition.
One of the patients, a male believed to be in his 70s, however, died on arrival.
Dr. Sekyi appealed to members of the public to help identify the elderly man who could not survive the accident, since the hospital could not gather any information from him before he passed on.
