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Tyler Perry is “absolutely fine” following a car accident that left his Bentley badly damaged. The director was involved in the car accident after leaving the Hollywood Burbank Airport in Los Angeles on Wednesday night. Tyler Perry had quite a scare on Wednesday night after the accident that left his Bentley SUV and another car badly damaged. “Tyler is absolutely fine, as is the other driver,” a source close to Perry tells PEOPLE, detailing the events that led up to the wreck in Los Angeles. “The other driver cut across three lanes of traffic, right across Tyler’s path, and unfortunately his…

The Miss World 2021 pageant finale has been temporarily postponed due to “health and safety interest of contestants, staff, crew and general public,” after additional positive cases were confirmed, the pageant announced. The finale, that was scheduled to take place in Puerto Rico on Thursday, will now be rescheduled within the next 90 days. “After meeting with the virologists and medical experts hired to oversee the Miss World 2021 event and discussing with the Puerto Rico Health Department, the decision has been made by the organizers of the event to postpone the globally broadcast finale at the Puerto Rico Coliseum…

Research by the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) has shown that 48 percent of traffic lights in the Greater Accra Region are non-functional. Areas noted for non-functioning traffic lights in the region include the Okponglo Junction, Shangrila, Kaneshie first light, Mataheko, Odorkor-Hansonic Junction, Kasoa-Tetegu junction. In the Ashanti Region, 19% of traffic lights are not functioning, with the Central and Western Regions following with 9% and 7% respectively. The NRSA expressed its dissatisfaction with the situation in a statement, indicating that the problem “increases the vulnerability of road users, especially pedestrians, to road traffic crashes and their associated injuries and…

Research conducted by the National Road Safety Authority (NRSA) on non-functional traffic signals and streetlights across the country has revealed that 48% of all traffic lights in the Greater Accra Region do not function properly. In a statement released on Friday, December 17, the Authority disclosed that a total of 75 traffic lights have been identified to be non-functional across the country. According to the NRSA, out of the 75, the Greater Accra, Ashanti, Central and Western regions account for 83% of all non-functional traffic lights in the country. “Out of the total of 75 non-functional traffic lights identified across…

Five persons have been lynched at Nyinawusu in the Atwima Nwabiagya Municipality of the Ashanti Region after they were accused of being armed robbers. According to the police, their investigations show that the deceased persons and one other were illegal miners from Akorabuokrom in the Atwima Mponua district who went to the area to engage in mining activities. The police say after they engaged in the mining activities on Thursday evening, they were invited to the Nyinawusu Chief’s palace and interrogated as some residents accused them of being behind armed robbery activities that took place in the area a few…

Five persons on board a Toyota Hiace bus have been confirmed dead in an accident at Anyinasin along the Accra- Kumasi highway on Thursday morning. The deceased include three males and two females. Several others who sustained severe injuries are receiving treatment at the Osino and Kyebi government hospitals. The accident occurred when a speeding Toyota Corolla travelling from the Kumasi direction of the highway attempted to drive past a stationary truck in the middle of the road to the opposite lane. The Corolla collided with a Nissan pathfinder with a trial plate number DV 5043B-21 driven by one Ransford…

The Asokore-Mampong District police have arrested a 26-year-old man for allegedly murdering his girlfriend at Parkoso, a suburb of Asokore-Mampong in the Kumasi metropolis. The suspect, Kwasi Bonsu, reportedly informed the police that he killed his girlfriend whose name has only been given as Samira, because she was cheating on him. Confirming the incident, the Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Godwin Ahianyo, said on Monday, at around 12 noon, the police had information that the suspect had murdered his girlfriend, and that the body was lying in front of a house at Parkoso Estate.…

The Northern Region has recorded 148 cases of road crashes from January to mid-December 2021. Some 37 of these cases were fatalities, 45 life-threatening injuries, and 33 saw minor injuries. The Regional MTTD Commander Supt. Mahamud Yussif who shared this data with JoyNews said the region recorded a reduction in accidents this year as compared to last year. “The department recorded a total of 148 cases and with this figure, we are looking at it from the first to the last quarter, for the first quarter 11 fatal cases 17 serious cases and 15 minor injury cases making a total…

A 29-year-old man, Emmanuel Gavor has been shot dead and another person left injured in a robbery attack near Buduburam in the Central Region. The incident reportedly occurred in the wee hours of Wednesday, while the victims were on their way to a sand winning site in the area. The two are said to have been attacked in between Awutu Loye and Awutu Kemo-Wo, near Buduburam in the Awutu Senya West District. A witness and survivor, Kojo Abbam narrated the incident to Adom News. Abbam said the robbers emerged from the bush and demanded that they hand over all money in…

The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly is forming a Road Safety Advisory Group, which will include a variety of stakeholders in the fight against road accidents. Metropolitan Chief Executive, Samuel Pyne, says this is part of efforts the Assembly is making to improve safety in Kumasi. “As the new mayor of the city, I pledge my conflicting support to the project to achieve its intended objectives. “I will foster strong collaboration with all road stakeholders especially the National Road Safety Authority for proper and adequate education and campaign. “Road and Highways Ministry, Department of Urban Roads for Road infrastructure interventions, Transport Ministry…