{"id":68810,"date":"2023-09-14T17:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kfm.co.ug\/?p=68810"},"modified":"2023-09-14T17:29:01","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T14:29:01","slug":"four-killed-in-mityana-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/four-killed-in-mityana-road-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Four killed in Mityana road crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Barbra Nalweyiso<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At least four people have been confirmed dead following a road crash that occurred at Naama Village on the Mityana-Mubende highway.<\/p>\n<p>The Wednesday crash involved a Mitsubishi Fuso truck registration number UBK 415N which collided head-on with an Isuzu tipper truck number UBH 369J at about 5pm.<\/p>\n<p>Wamala Regional Police spokesperson, Racheal Kawala identified one of the deceased as Robert Bukenya, 25 a resident of Naama Village in Mityana Municipality who was the driver of the Isuzu tipper and three others yet to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The driver of Mitsubishi Fuso was driving from Mityana side heading to Mubende and when he reached Mumsa High School, he tried to overtake a trailer and ended up colliding head-on with an Isuzu tipper loaded with sand<br \/>\nthat was coming from the Mubende direction,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the ill-fated Mitsubishi Fuso fled the scene and police have since launched a manhunt as investigations continue.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Kawala urged motorists to avoid overtaking when they cannot clearly see the road ahead.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies were taken to Mityana hospital for postmortem and wreckages towed to Mityana police station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbra Nalweyiso At least four people have been confirmed dead following a road crash that occurred at Naama Village on the Mityana-Mubende highway. The Wednesday crash involved a Mitsubishi Fuso truck registration number UBK 415N which collided head-on with an Isuzu tipper truck number UBH 369J at about 5pm. Wamala Regional Police spokesperson, Racheal Kawala identified one of the deceased as Robert Bukenya, 25 a resident of Naama Village in Mityana Municipality who was the driver of the Isuzu tipper and three others yet to be identified. &#8220;The driver of Mitsubishi Fuso was driving from Mityana side heading to Mubende and when he reached Mumsa High School, he tried to overtake a trailer and ended up colliding head-on with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":68811,"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":[2097],"class_list":["post-68810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-mityana-road-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68810"}],"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=68810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}