More details on the East Legon accident that burned at least 2 people to death

Salifu Amoako is the founder and general overseer of Alive Chapel International

More details are emerging on the road accident in East Legon, a suburb of the nation’s capital, Accra, which resulted in the death of at least two people who were burned to death on Saturday, October 12, 2024.

According to reports, one of the vehicles involved in the accident, a white Jaguar, belongs to the wife of Salifu Amoako, a popular pastor in Ghana.

Reports, which GhanaWeb cannot confirm at this stage, indicate that one of Salifu Amoako’s sons, aged between 21 and 22, took his mother’s Jaguar for a race during her birthday party. his little brother on Saturday.

Salifu Amoako’s son and his friend who were in the Jaguar survived the accident.

CCTV footage and eyewitness testimony:

CCTV footage of the incident showed the white Jaguar traveling at very high speed.

Failing to slow down, the Jaguar hit at least one vehicle. A few minutes after the accident, smoke was visible at the scene of the incident.

Some spectators could be seen rushing to the scene of the accident to help.

An eyewitness, a motorist who saved a young girl in the second car, said it was the Jaguar that started burning.

He said he tried to help the woman driving the second car, but was unsuccessful. However, he managed to rescue the young girl before the second vehicle also caught fire.

According to reports, one of the vehicles hit a wooden electricity pole, causing the electricity cables to fall from the pole and sparking a fire that engulfed the vehicles, burning them completely.

Watch videos from the crash scene and articles about the white Jaguar below:

CCTV footage of the clash in East Legon

Check the speed of the white jaguar!

This motorcyclist saved the little girl

Name1 #TidalRave pic.twitter.com/HiEoPdj4lD

– KofiO (@Adom_nkutoo) October 12, 2024

Today was the birthday of a famous pastor’s son. They threw a party for the young man in East Legon, not far from the accident site. His younger brother took his mother’s jaguar to go for a “race.” The results are what we see in the video below https://t.co/12CLLhrSCB

– CHEF (@tailorMARIQUE) October 12, 2024

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