{"id":42228,"date":"2024-04-19T07:37:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T07:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=42228"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:42:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:42:53","slug":"police-arrest-truck-driver-alleged-to-have-caused-train-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/04\/19\/police-arrest-truck-driver-alleged-to-have-caused-train-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest truck driver alleged to have caused train crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ghana Police Service says it has arrested the driver of a Hyundai truck with registration number GS 9018 &#8211; 20 who allegedly abandoned his truck on the Tema-Mpakadan railway line leading to a train crash Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police say their preliminary investigation has established that the suspect driver left the truck unattended on the railway line, leading to a collision with the new Diesel Multiple Unit (DMU) train recently procured from Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The police are yet to identify the suspect but said in an update that they are continuing with investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Accident-train.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10032495718\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The train, according to the Ministry of Railways Development, was on a test run when it crashed into the truck parked in its way in a curve and unattended, at approximately 12:10 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDespite the immediate application of the emergency braking system, the train was unable to come to a complete stop before colliding with the vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry said there were no fatalities from the accident, apart from damage to the driver&#8217;s cabin and the destruction of the truck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Police Service says it has arrested the driver of a Hyundai truck with registration number GS 9018 &#8211; 20 who allegedly abandoned his truck on the Tema-Mpakadan railway line leading to a train crash Thursday. The police say their preliminary investigation has established that the suspect driver left the truck unattended on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":42229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[5144,6975,9787,8193,9109,8116,10380,7583,192,375,707,6689,10197,2627,837,421,8174,11354,9195,9616,12852,9535,2485,594],"class_list":["post-42228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-accident","tag-arrest","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-crashed","tag-destruction","tag-diesel","tag-driver","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-police","tag-ghana-police-service","tag-hyundai","tag-investigation","tag-pm","tag-poland","tag-police","tag-railway","tag-railways","tag-tema","tag-train","tag-train-crash","tag-train-crashed","tag-truck","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42230,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42228\/revisions\/42230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}