Two saved by pillar …as leaner ‘trotro mate’ veers off road

But for divine intervention, two persons would have met their premature death at Teshie in Accra last Wednesday.

A trotro driver’s mate who was learning how to drive along the Teshie road at about 7:50pm on that fateful day veered off the road and crashed into a nearby pillar where the two persons stood.

According to eye witnesses, a woman had closed from work and was waiting for the husband to take her home so she decided to wait for him in front of a savings and loans company, and engaged in a conversation with a young man who worked with the company was also standing at the same spot.

All of a sudden, a ‘trotro’ at top speed came rushing towards them, but luckily the vehicle, hit  a pillar which was right in front of them,  According to sources,” the driver was teaching his mate how to drive but in the process, he (driver) got a phone call and the mate decided to drive the trotro on his own knowing very well he didn’t know how to drive”. 

When the woman’s husband arrived at the scene and realised what had happened, he gave the driver a dirty slap and the mate sensing danger, ran away leaving the driver behind.

By Richael Ammah