{"id":654,"date":"2023-06-22T18:06:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T18:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/?p=654"},"modified":"2023-06-22T18:06:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T18:06:09","slug":"two-ghanaian-students-in-the-us-die-in-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/22\/two-ghanaian-students-in-the-us-die-in-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Ghanaian students in the US die in car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two Ghanaian students studying in the United States have tragically lost their lives in a devastating car crash according to the South Carolina Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lance Cpl Nick Pye said the two-vehicle collision happened in Pickens County on Sunday at about 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The students who are residents of Clemson, Alberta Oduraa Quartey, 23, and Abena Gyamfua, 31, died from blunt force trauma, according to Pickens County Coroner Kandy Kelley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pye said Quartey and Gyamfua were passengers in a 2006 BMW sedan driving south on S.C. Quartey and Gyamfua died at the scene, Kelley said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SUV driver, along with the driver and another passenger in the car, were taken to an area hospital, according to Pye. Further information on their conditions was not available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was no word if any of the people involved in the wreck were wearing seat belts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Information about what caused the collision was not available, but it continues to be investigated by the Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clemson University said both Quartey and Gyamfua were graduate students from Ghana, WYFF reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to their respective LinkedIn pages, Quartey was seeking her PhD in electrical engineering, and Gyamfua was pursuing her master of arts in education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clemson Vice President and Dean of Students Chris Miller said the university is mourning the deaths, according to WYFF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><sub>Source: Citi Newsroom<\/sub><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-562\" width=\"168\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Ghanaian students studying in the United States have tragically lost their lives in a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/car-crash-US-750x375-1.jpg",750,375,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/car-crash-US-750x375-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/car-crash-US-750x375-1-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/car-crash-US-750x375-1.jpg",640,320,false],"large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/car-crash-US-750x375-1.jpg",640,320,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/car-crash-US-750x375-1.jpg",750,375,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/car-crash-US-750x375-1.jpg",750,375,false],"shareaholic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/car-crash-US-750x375-1-640x320.jpg",640,320,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/car-crash-US-750x375-1.jpg",750,375,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/car-crash-US-750x375-1.jpg",750,375,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/car-crash-US-750x375-1-590x375.jpg",590,375,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Babia Mubaric"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General News<\/a>","tag_info":"General News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}