The pothole was the cause!
May 27, 2008
EDITOR—the public relations officer of the works ministry, Susan Kataike has written in the Sunday Vision that the accident at Kigunga on the Kampala- Jinja highway in which five people were killed, was not caused by the deep pothole that was in the valley. Kataike is entitled to do her work but
EDITOR—the public relations officer of the works ministry, Susan Kataike has written in the Sunday Vision that the accident at Kigunga on the Kampala- Jinja highway in which five people were killed, was not caused by the deep pothole that was in the valley. Kataike is entitled to do her work but she is not entitled to tell open lies and insult people, including the dead.
It is incomprehensible how anyone can suggest that the accident was not caused by the pothole. The only question is how that pothole could not have caused the accident! She states that “the spot where the vehicles collided was on a pothole-free part of the roadâ€.
True, but for a pothole to cause an accident, must one find the wreckages in the pothole? the trailer hit the pothole and went out of control, veered to the right and collided with the truck. The collision could not have occurred exactly where the pothole is!
The wreckage was about 20 metres from the pothole.
Kataike also ‘suspects’ the driver of the trailer was free-wheeling. Can she explain why the same driver who came ‘free-wheeling’ at several sections of the road all the way from Mombasa should have crashed at Kigunga? hundreds of drivers travel on that road daily and know how dangerous that pothole is.
And that is not the first accident it had caused! For your information, there is another one at the famous ‘Stage ya Bakyala,’ and another in the Seeta valley where they bake bricks. Kataike should get ready to deny on behalf of her bosses when these potholes cause the next accidents. they have been there for months!
Edward Okadapao
Kampala
It is incomprehensible how anyone can suggest that the accident was not caused by the pothole. The only question is how that pothole could not have caused the accident! She states that “the spot where the vehicles collided was on a pothole-free part of the roadâ€.
True, but for a pothole to cause an accident, must one find the wreckages in the pothole? the trailer hit the pothole and went out of control, veered to the right and collided with the truck. The collision could not have occurred exactly where the pothole is!
The wreckage was about 20 metres from the pothole.
Kataike also ‘suspects’ the driver of the trailer was free-wheeling. Can she explain why the same driver who came ‘free-wheeling’ at several sections of the road all the way from Mombasa should have crashed at Kigunga? hundreds of drivers travel on that road daily and know how dangerous that pothole is.
And that is not the first accident it had caused! For your information, there is another one at the famous ‘Stage ya Bakyala,’ and another in the Seeta valley where they bake bricks. Kataike should get ready to deny on behalf of her bosses when these potholes cause the next accidents. they have been there for months!
Edward Okadapao
Kampala