A comedian and actor, Nana Yaw Oduro, was yesterday granted GH¢120,000 bail with two sure­ties by the Ofaakor Circuit Court, Kasoa, in the Awutu Senya East District of the Central Region for careless driving.

 

 

Oduro, also known as Funny Face, faces additional charge of drunk-driving.

 

 

The case has been adjourned to May 10.

 

 

The accused on Sunday night, March 24, allegedly rammed his car into a group of persons at Kasoa Kakraba Junction, thereby injuring a mother and her two children, and two other motor­cyclists.

 

 

Funny Face was driving a Hyundai Atos with registration number GN-1134-16 from Kasoa and heading towards Nyanyano when the incident occurred.

 

 

He fled the scene after the ac­cident, and some good samaritans took the injured to hospital.

 

 

According to sources, Funny Face was allegedly speeding and on reaching a section of the road at Kakraba Junction, he knocked down a female pedestrian, Theresa Quaicoe, 50, and her two children, Rohi Kofi Turkson, a year old, and Elisabeth Turkson, five, when they were crossing the road.

The accused was also said to have also knocked down Nicholas Ashang, 30, who was riding a motorcycle.

The source said the victims sustained injuries and were rushed to Kasoa Polyclinic for treatment.

However, Theresa and Elisa­beth were later transferred to the Trauma and Specialist Hospital at Winneba, in the Central Region, for further treatment.

The source again said the vic­tims were responding to treatment, but the one-year old baby was in critical condition at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.

The comedian was at large and the police were making efforts to arrest him to assist in investiga­tions.

But accused, in the company of his lawyer, later surrendered to the Kasoa Divisional Police Command, and he was immediate­ly arraigned.

The GhanaianTimes gathered that the vehicle and motorcycle had been impounded at the police station while investigations con­tinued.

Eyewitness accounts revealed that the mother and her children, who were on the pedestrian lane were first hit before the commer­cial motorcycle rider.