30 bus passengers injured
Mar 22, 2011
OVER 30 passengers travelling from Nairobi via Kampala to Juba in Southern Sudan got injured when their bus overturned at Tiena-Kaya in Opaka forest, Koro sub-county on the Gulu-Kampala highway.
By Chris Ocowun
OVER 30 passengers travelling from Nairobi via Kampala to Juba in Southern Sudan got injured when their bus overturned at Tiena-Kaya in Opaka forest, Koro sub-county on the Gulu-Kampala highway.
The Gulu district Police traffic officer, Patrick Okoya Kagwa, said the driver of the kampala Coach bus, registration number KBF 866H, lost control and the bus went-off the road, before overturning after one of the front tyres burst.
The incident happened at around 6:00am. “A total of 31 travellers got injured in the accident, five of them got fractures,†Okoya said.
He said the injured passengers were taken to St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor, Gulu Independent and Gulu regional hospitals.
Okoya added that the bus driver fled after the accident.
He advised bus drivers against speeding and to always observe road signs to avoid accidents.
The officer in charge of crime at Gulu Police Station, Moses Byabagye, noted that the driver would be charged with reckless driving and speeding.
The survivors, who declined to be named, blamed the driver for speeding
and narrated that most of them were asleep when the bus overturned.
The Kampala Coach manager based in Gulu, Abdul Razak, explained that another bus from Kampala would carry the rest of the passengers to Juba.
Byabagye said no one died in the accident, adding that the bus company would pay passengers who lost their property during the accident.
OVER 30 passengers travelling from Nairobi via Kampala to Juba in Southern Sudan got injured when their bus overturned at Tiena-Kaya in Opaka forest, Koro sub-county on the Gulu-Kampala highway.
The Gulu district Police traffic officer, Patrick Okoya Kagwa, said the driver of the kampala Coach bus, registration number KBF 866H, lost control and the bus went-off the road, before overturning after one of the front tyres burst.
The incident happened at around 6:00am. “A total of 31 travellers got injured in the accident, five of them got fractures,†Okoya said.
He said the injured passengers were taken to St. Mary’s Hospital Lacor, Gulu Independent and Gulu regional hospitals.
Okoya added that the bus driver fled after the accident.
He advised bus drivers against speeding and to always observe road signs to avoid accidents.
The officer in charge of crime at Gulu Police Station, Moses Byabagye, noted that the driver would be charged with reckless driving and speeding.
The survivors, who declined to be named, blamed the driver for speeding
and narrated that most of them were asleep when the bus overturned.
The Kampala Coach manager based in Gulu, Abdul Razak, explained that another bus from Kampala would carry the rest of the passengers to Juba.
Byabagye said no one died in the accident, adding that the bus company would pay passengers who lost their property during the accident.