Sprinter bus drivers take in ‘wee toffee’ to drive for long hours – Fire Service
According to preliminary investigations done by the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) into the Accra-Cape Coast highway accidents, certain drivers, particularly those who drive Mercedes Sprinter and 207 buses, have been using enhancing chemicals to enable them to drive for longer hours.
Kwesi Hughes, Winneba Municipal Fire Commander, said the drivers brought in ‘little toffee’ to aid them to go beyond the day’s working hours.
The Commander was speaking about two separate accidents on the Cape Coast-Accra stretch of the route over the weekend that injured 46 passengers.
In these two separate accidents on the Kasoa-Cape Coast Highway, twenty passengers were sent to the hospital in critical condition, while 26 others were injured and treated at the Winneba Trauma and Specialist Hospital.
The first accident occurred in Gomoa Mpota, and the second in Gomoa Mankessim, both in the Central Region.
According to police, two Sprinter Benz buses were involved in each of the two separate accidents, which involved five cars.
The first incident featured three vehicles: a Sprinter Benz bus, a KIA Rhino, and a DAF Trailer, while the second was a Sprinter Benz bus from Cape Coast to Accra that ruptured its tyre and somersaulted in the process.
Meanwhile, the Fire Service Commander DOIII Kwesi Hughes in an interview on the Sunrise on Monday, April 25, 2022, mentioned that “The drivers of these sprinter busses take in substance, which is an abuse”.
“So their blood is hot. They take in wee toffee so the police can go underground and do investigations to check”.
He narrated that “When they sit behind the wheels, they are just chasing money”.
“A sprinter can overtake 15 cars at a go. Look, I have been using this stretch on a daily or weekly basis and what I sometimes see, it is very bad,” he lamented.
