Trailer Rams Into Multiple Cars On N1 Highway

A trailer lost control and rammed into about 19 vehicles on the George Walker Bush Motorway, also known as the N1 Highway, on Tuesday night.

Eyewitnesses said the trailer, which was running at top speed, had a brake failure and in an attempt to veer off the busy highway for safe parking smashed into moving vehicles which led to multiple crashes.

The driver of the trailer, which was facing the Kwashieman-Mallam direction of the road climbed the pavement right in front of the Bank of Africa near the Hong Kong bus stop.

The scene of the accident became chaotic at about 7pm as a vehicle with passengers caught fire in the process with several onlookers running for their lives. 

The fire and ambulance services including the police arrived at the scene an hour later and managed to douse the fire to rescue some trapped passengers, it added. 

Graphic Online had received multiple reports from drivers using that stretch of the road around the same time that they were having to deal with heavy traffic.