Three killed in different accidents at same spot

Five accidents at the same spot on the Jinja-Iganga highway in a space of two days has left three people dead. Several others were severely injured and admitted to Jinja Hospital.
According to the police, the three major and two minor crashes involving nine cars occurred at Kakira between 8pm on Tuesday and 6am yesterday.

Police identified the dead as Abdullah Soppra, a driver with a Kenyan passport and two turnboys, Saidi Hussein and Muhamed Zubali. They died after their Kampala-bound trailer rammed into two stationary trailers; that had been involved in an accident 40 minutes earlier.

“We are still carrying out investigations because this is not just one accident,” the south eastern regional traffic officer, Ms Hellen Apolot, said.
All vehicles were headed for Kampala.

Bad weather
“It was very foggy and it was hard to see the road ahead,” Mr Paul Kosgey, one of the drivers who survived an earlier accident, told Daily Monitor. Another driver, Mr Joseph Nzioka, was injured after he rammed into a stationary truck from an earlier accident. He was rushed to Nairobi after receiving first aid at Jinja Hospital. The first accident involved a truck which rammed into an omni bus. Two casualties in the bus, who are yet to be identified, sustained life-threatening injuries and are admitted to Jinja Hospital.

Some of the accidents happened as the police officers attended to the first accident. The officers said they tried to prevent subsequent accidents from happening by flashing their spot-lights to no avail.