Dompoase accident driver handed one-year prison sentence, slapped with GHC 17,280 fine

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The driver of the Hyundai bus number GN 3780-10, who survived the fatal accident on the Cape Coast-Takoradi highway, Mark Kofi Mireku, has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment on 34 counts each of dangerous driving, to run concurrently.

He has also been slapped with a GHC 17,280.00 fine or in default serve 12-years on 18 counts each of negligently causing harm.

He was sentenced on the above-stated charges on 8th June 2020 by the Circuit Court, Cape Coast.

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Additionally, the court banned him from operating as a commercial driver for life.

Charges of manslaughter are pending against the convict at the High Court.

The accident at Dompoase on the midnight of January 14, 2020, claimed 34 lives and leftover 50 others injured.

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Source: universnewsroom.com

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