At least four students of St Peter’s Naalya Secondary School (SPENA) were injured in a road accident that occurred in Nakasongola district along the Kampala–Gulu highway.
The accident happened at around 9:30am on Sunday at Kakindu village in Wabinyonyi sub-county. The injured students have been identified as Christabella Awori, Claudia Namukisa, Margaret Atwine and Prudence Tumugabirwe.
According to Savannah regional police spokesperson Sam Twiineamazima, the students were injured when the school coaster, registration number UBQ 073H, collided with a fuel tanker, UBQ 935Y, and a white Toyota Hiace ambulance, registration number UBK 257F.
Twiineamazima explained that the driver of the school coaster, which was coming from the Gulu side and followed by the ambulance, attempted to overtake a trailer but drifted into the opposite lane, leading to a head-on collision with the fuel tanker.
Police officers from Nakasongola responded to the scene and transported the injured students to health facilities in Kampala for treatment.
The fuel tanker, UBQ 935Y, remains at the scene awaiting offloading of its fuel before it can be towed, while the damaged vehicles, the Toyota Hiace ambulance and the school coaster, were taken to Katuugo police station.
Twiineamazima said preliminary investigations point to careless overtaking as the likely cause of the crash, although inquiries are still ongoing.
“Motorists are urged to exercise caution, especially before overtaking manoeuvres on busy highways, and to adhere to speed limits and road signs,” Twiineamazima said.
Time Ugandans get back ownership of the zone formed by their tribal lands in UNITY, knowing accidents… MUST be handled correctly with real professionals! Every highway, roads MUST have 2 side way drives & well built!
Nakasongola highway has had so many accidents for years, yet nothing is done to improve it!
Ugandans, time you wake up & ensure you own Uganda again & have a beginning to development to give the next generation chance to know what belonging to “country” means!
40 years on so why will Rwandese Museveni beging working for powerless tribally divided Ugandans when their miseries, death, poverty…are what make him so so strong?