By: Isaac Amoah
Mr. Patrick Kwame Frimpong, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Safe Journey Foundation, a non-governmental Organization specialist in road safety education and management, has declared the Accra-Kumasi highway as a deathtrap.
According to him, the Accra-Kumasi highway, which serves 14 out of the 16 regions, has become a leading “killer” of road users, for which reason there is an urgent need for all hands to be on deck for the immediate fixing of the highway devoid of the usual political assurance by successive governments.
Mr.Patrick Kwame Frimpong
He said apart from those in the Central and Western religions who don’t use the road, the majority of people in the 14 regions use the highway, which has claimed many lives over the years.
According to him, the recent road accidents should be a wake-up call for the government to do whatever possible in the shortest time to help fix the highway.
The renewed call by the CEO of Safe Journey Foundation, who doubles as the National NALAG Vice-President and the Presiding Member for the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), in an interview with “The New Trust” newspaper on Sunday, 3rd August 2025, follows the recent lorry accident that claimed the lives of 16 members of the Saviour Church in the Asante Akyem South Municipality in the Ashanti Region.
It would recalled that 16 members of the Saviour Church of Ghana lost their lives following a tragic accident on the Atwedie stretch of the Kumasi-Accra highway on Monday, July 28, 2025.
The incident, which occurred around 2:30 p.m., involved a collision between a vehicle carrying the church members and a fuel tanker which was coming from the opposite direction.
Available information revealed that the victims were returning to Obogu in the Asante Akyem South Municipality, after attending their church’s annual meeting in the Eastern Region.
The head-on collision led to multiple fatalities on the spot and few members survived with serious injures.
File scenes of the recent road accident
It is as a result of that unfortunate incident that Mr. Frimpong is appealing to the government to secure funding for at least three to four lanes for the Accra-Kumasi highway.
“Accra-Kumasi highway needs 3-4 lanes to avoid further road accidents. I’m also appealing to all road users, especially drivers, to be extra careful by avoiding speeding, wrong overtaking, drink-driving, but rather follow all the road regulations to help reduce, if not eliminate, the rampant fatal lorry accidents,” he added.
