NKOZI
ROAD ACCIDENT
By Lawrence Sunday Ogwang
Today Monday 11th March 2019 at around 5:30
pm, a fatal motor accident involving a boda-boda
man and a secondary school student of Kayabwe Secondary School occurred just
opposite Canaan hostel in Nkozi along the main road.
The boda-boda man who was apparently riding at breakneck speed from Kayabwe heading towards
Uganda Martyrs University, knocked down a secondary school student who has only
been identified as Mariam with the help of a bystander at the scene who claimed
knowledge of the student.
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| A boda-boda man in a pool of blood |
According to the eyewitnesses,
the boda-boda man knocked the girl from behind, throwing her off balance into
the ditch leaving her with a badly cut head and damaged hips. The aforesaid
damage could easily be seen as the blood kept oozing out both from the head and
the hips.
Meanwhile, the boda-boda man and his motorcycle
registration number UEP 970Z reportedly rolled several times on the road before
it could stop leaving him lying unconscious in a pool of blood. “The Motorcycle rolled several times together with
him and just rested on him”, an eye witness reported.
The two victims were immediately however under
critical conditions rushed to St. Mary’s hospital Nkozi for medical assistance.
Efforts to
establish the identity of the boda-boda man by press time was futile since
everybody around claimed ignorance of the man.
The eyewitnesses
who saw the accident take place expressed
their concern on how the boda-boda men and the drivers are carelessly using the
road adding that if nothing is done to moderate the speed people are using on
this road, more fatal accidents would occur.
“With all these speeds,
we who reside near the road are at risk
of losing everything including our children to these careless riders and
drivers” an eye witness commented.
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