PHOTO: The GVL truck involved in the accident (Left) and Albert Toe Clarke, GVL driver (Right)
By Theo Gippley, tehpohsotehpoh@gmail.com
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Two persons riding a commercial motorcycle have been crushed to death on the road between Wedabo town of Geneken and a town of Trehn-Gblebo in Liberia’s southeastern Grand Kru County when a speeding Golden Veroleum Liberia oil palm company truck ran into the pair.
Wedabo Geneken is a town connecting the County’s capital, Barclayville and other areas, which has now been plunged into mourning as a result of the tragic road accident on Tuesday, June 8, 2022, which caused the lives of a man and woman.
The dead were later identified as Alexander Fertieh, 26, and Jacqueline Sarplah, 29.
According to eyewitnesses, after the fatal crash, the truck driver immediately fled the scene fearing mob action against him by friends and relatives of the two individual killed in the accident.
Eyewitness accounts said that the GVL truck was excessively speeding and ran into the motorcycle rider and his female passenger.
The victims were said to have been returning to Grand Kru from Pleebo city in neighbouring Maryland County where they had gone to buy goods. The woman, Jacqueline Sarplah was a petite trader living in Topoe, a town on the outskirts of Barclayville.
A commercial motorcyclist plying that root was the first to arrive on the scene of the accident, while returning from Pleebo city. He later shared photos of the grim scene taken from his smart phone.