27 people have been injured in a bus accident along the Bwera-Kasese road.
The accident occurred today, Thursday at Kikorongo in Kasese district. The bus registration number UAK 881C belonging to Link Bus was carrying 64 passengers.
According to James Okwi, the East Ruwenzori regional traffic officer, the driver of the bus which was traveling from Bwera in Kasese district to Kampala lost control and overturned after failing to brake on a slope at about 9am today.
He also says that the driver only identified as Magezi and the bus conductor immediately fled after the accident. The injured passengers are seeking treatment at Kagando and Kilembe hospitals.
Earlier on, there were reports that 21 had died from the accident. However, Okwi disputed the reports.
The accident occurred today, Thursday at Kikorongo in Kasese district. The bus registration number UAK 881C belonging to Link Bus was carrying 64 passengers.
According to James Okwi, the East Ruwenzori regional traffic officer, the driver of the bus which was traveling from Bwera in Kasese district to Kampala lost control and overturned after failing to brake on a slope at about 9am today.
He also says that the driver only identified as Magezi and the bus conductor immediately fled after the accident. The injured passengers are seeking treatment at Kagando and Kilembe hospitals.
Earlier on, there were reports that 21 had died from the accident. However, Okwi disputed the reports.
Comments
Heavy vehicles uses hydraulic breaking systems which is difficult to manipulated especially on hilly roads,despite regular services.
The driver and the mechanics may have no clues that's why such misfortune may arise since nobody wants to die as they also move in the same vehicles with passengers.
Some of this manufacturer's are also making money and they make parts which are substandard that don't lasting on the roads.
Can some body in authority stand up and say; "enough is a enough", let us put in an emergency law to punish those who are killing innocent Ugandans.
As it is, we are at the mercy of these merchants of death because our legislators have failed us; we have a parliament of over 600 MPs who have become an expensive, bloated 'talking shop' bogged down by bureaucracy and protecting their own vested interests.
Many times comments overlap/sit on one another & we can't read them!
Did the dirver run away because he was afraid of being found drunk & shouldn't have been on duty?
Alsi Police on Uganda roads should check drivers ,technical condition of vehicles and enforce speed limitations I can Imagine Ugandans driving like in the old America movie " Joe go faster,faster".
And the consequences which are very often tragic. Do not blame Government if Uganda because Government is not nanny and mummy or papa for drivers.
Drivers are responsible and they should be arrested and put behind the bars for me slaughter. Condilences again.
You young Uganda readers and commentators ask your elders how did roads in Uganda look like before Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his government took over?
Let me tell you.Only in Kampala the main Kampala road was somehow passable but with potholes here and there.
Other capillary roads in Kampala full of potholes full of water and mud and at times they looked like small fishing ponds.
I remember one friend jumping the hole and landed in mud ankle deep.That was just opposite to Apollo Hotel,then today's splendid Sherston .
Here's the truth about Uganda:
Unsafe vehicles.
Untrained drivers (they drive a van for a month and assume they can drive a passenger bus!)
Soldiers-in-police-uniform who know 00 about traffic laws (they are on roadsides, 2-way radios in hand pretending to enforce traffics laws).
The risk combination is endless and it all adds up to risk on Uganda roads.
Who is to blame? Whoever would take credit for safe roads is also to blame for unsafe roads.
Who is that? The Despot-for-32-Years who thinks that a nation is led by simply caring about his personal safety and letting everybody else carry on without any laws.
What can be done?
Only one thing: Remove the Despot-for-32-Years so Uganda can have leadership that will bring the rule of law back to the beautiful people and wonderful country.
President Museveni and his government have done huge job by building roads and lifting Uganda economy with bare hands!
An instead of commending him and NRM you are inviting the people of Uganda to unseat him. You must be mad dog amigo.You are stupid fool!!
who will enforce the enacted laws on a hungry stomach with poverty and problems in the backyard home.
You are "baiting" me to say the "unmentionable"; no, I won't fall for that trap.
As the saying goes; "A hungry man is an angry man" and at this rate of events our anger will "peak" with disastrous consequences.
You and me use these roads frequently usually on an empty stomach, so it makes no difference to the outcome.