{"id":64417,"date":"2023-04-07T21:43:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T18:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=64417"},"modified":"2023-04-07T21:49:13","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T18:49:13","slug":"2-children-among-9-killed-in-lwengo-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/2-children-among-9-killed-in-lwengo-car-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"2 children among 9 killed in Lwengo car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gertrude Mutyaba & David Ajuna<\/strong><\/p>\n

At least nine people, including two children, have been confirmed dead following a road crash at a neglected blackspot in Lwengo District on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The 4pm head-on collision at Kyoko Village, along the Masaka-Mbarara Road,\u00a0involved an Alphard vehicle from Kampala- headed towards Mbarara\u00a0City- and an oncoming\u00a0trailer on a climbing lane from Mbarara City.<\/p>\n

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Citing eyewitness accounts, traffic police Friday evening attributed the fatal road crash to \u201cspeeding and driving in a wrong road lane.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cEyewitnesses say the Alphard was keeping right which we need to clarify. All the occupants in the Alphard perished,\u201d Greater Masaka regional traffic officer SP Richard Komaketch told journalists.<\/p>\n

The venue for Friday\u2019s road crash is a renowned blackspot where about ten people perished in a deadly accident late December 2022. Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gertrude Mutyaba & David Ajuna At least nine people, including two children, have been confirmed dead following a road crash at a neglected blackspot in Lwengo District on Friday. The 4pm head-on collision at Kyoko Village, along the Masaka-Mbarara Road,\u00a0involved an Alphard vehicle from Kampala- headed towards Mbarara\u00a0City- and an oncoming\u00a0trailer on a climbing lane from Mbarara City. Citing eyewitness accounts, traffic police Friday evening attributed the fatal road crash to \u201cspeeding and driving in a wrong road lane.\u201d \u201cEyewitnesses say the Alphard was keeping right which we need to clarify. All the occupants in the Alphard perished,\u201d Greater Masaka regional traffic officer SP Richard Komaketch told journalists. The venue for Friday\u2019s road crash is a renowned blackspot where about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":64418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"2","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"0","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-normal","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"F j, Y g:i a","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"3","show_author_box":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}