One of the survivors of the horrific Kintampo accident has corroborated the earlier account that the bus developed a fault prior to its crash, but then came forth with his own bizarre theory of why the accident occurred.
According to the survivor, identified only as Charles, three people on board the bus where carrying human parts back to their hometown for burial, and their failure to follow procedure by undertaking rituals before boarding the bus is what led to the accident.
How people could be travelling with body parts is due to local customs which dictates that if a person cannot be sent to their hometown for burial, body parts such as hair and nails could be taken off the corpse and transported back home.
Charles claims he was travelling with some parts from a relative, and informed the driver for the necessary rites to be performed before he got on. According to him however, three other passengers also carrying parts did not, leading to the accident.
On a more serious note (because I’m not buying that as the cause for a second), Charles added that the bus indeed did develop a fault, and the driver decided to continue the journey despite being unable to repair it fully. Not long after, the driver lost control of the bus, ramming into three cows and then the tomato truck. He also corroborated the accounts that they were travelling at an unreal speed.
His statements seem to align with the earliest reports after the accident, when it was speculated that a brake malfunction led to the accident. Charles has explained how the accident came about, but in his superstitious mind the only explanation can be that of those carrying the dead body parts.
That’s Ghanaians in a nutshell for you- nothing can be explained without recourse to the supernatural, even if a more plausible explanation is staring you right in the face.
The Kintampo crash occurred last week, when a Metro Mass Transit bus travelling from Kintampo to Tamale rammed into an incoming truck loaded with tomatoes. 63 people died, with 22 others receiving treatment for varying degrees of injury.

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