Eleven people were killed and several others injured in a road crash involving a passenger bus and an articulated truck in the Ashanti Region on Tuesday, police said.

The accident occurred at about 1:37pm near the NAC International Shell Filling Station opposite the Offinso North District Assembly in Akomadan, according to a police situation report from the Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD).

Police said the driver of a Nissan Urvan bus travelling from Kumasi to Wenchi attempted to overtake another vehicle and collided head-on with an oncoming Shackman articulated truck.

The Nissan bus, with registration number BA 2913-13, was carrying 15 passengers. The driver, identified by police as 28-year-old Michael Antwi, and the passengers sustained serious injuries and were rushed to Nkenkaasu Government Hospital for treatment.

Eleven passengers, whose identities were not immediately known, were pronounced dead on arrival by medical officers at the hospital, police said.

The driver of the truck, identified as 31-year-old McDonald Dery, was taken into police custody to assist investigations.

Police said the bodies of the deceased had been deposited at the hospital morgue pending identification and autopsy.