Tragic Sunday: Six dead, dozens rescued as multiple crashes devastate Volta Region

A dark Sunday unfolded across the Volta Region on June 21, 2026, as a series of vehicle collisions left six people dead and forced emergency responders into a desperate race against time to pull survivors from twisted metal and debris.

The tragedy began along a stretch of the Peki-Kpeve Road in South Dayi District, in an area near Todome and Kpeve where the Eastern Corridor Road cuts through hilly terrain.

The Peki Fire Station received its distress call at approximately 12:53 p.m. and mobilised a rescue team led by Station Officer II Richard Amenyogbeli, who arrived on scene within ten minutes to find chaos unfolding simultaneously at two separate locations.

The first of the crashes involved a long-haul MAN Diesel TGS truck heading from Tema toward Tamale and a Toyota Camry carrying passengers from Nkwanta to Accra.

Fortunately, local residents had already managed to free all five occupants from these two vehicles before the fire team’s arrival. Both machines bore significant structural damage but the swift action of bystanders prevented fatalities at this particular incident.

A far grimmer scene awaited at the second crash site, where a Metro Mass Transit bus that had been carrying 28 passengers from Accra toward Dambai lay damaged along the roadway.

Fire officers extracted 24 people from the wreckage — a group comprising seven men and 17 women — and rushed them to the Peki Government Hospital for emergency care.

But four souls did not survive. One man and three women were pronounced dead at the crash scene, their bodies later transferred to police custody for formal handling and post-mortem procedures.

As rescue operations continued in the South Dayi District, another emergency call came through from the regional capital. At 1:04 p.m., the GNFS Regional Headquarters dispatched personnel to the Ho Civic Centre, where a collision involving a Hyundai Mighty truck, a Pragya tricycle and an unregistered motorcycle had just occurred.

Rescuers successfully freed ten people from the wreckage and conveyed them to both the Ho Municipal Hospital and the Ho Teaching Hospital for treatment of their injuries.

But the hospitals would soon deliver devastating news. Medical staff confirmed that two male patients had succumbed to the injuries they had sustained, raising the death toll from the day’s catastrophes to six.

The vehicles involved in both incidents sustained varying degrees of destruction, while authorities launched parallel investigations to determine what mechanical failures, driver errors, or environmental conditions had triggered the crashes.

The tragedies marked a continuation of a troubling trend along the same routes, as the region had witnessed a similarly fatal collision just eight days earlier on Saturday, June 13, when a Hyundai Mighty truck lost control while descending the Ola SHS hill in Ho, barrelling into roadside shops and tricycles and claiming two additional lives.

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