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Arome said the drivers of both vehicles were among the dead, as well as a three-year-old child, while the injured had been taken to a Nakuru hospital. One survivor, speaking from his hospital bed, said he had been asleep at the back of the bus when the collision happened.
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In December last year more than 40 people died when an out of control fuel tanker ploughed into vehicles and then exploded on another busy stretch of highway. Deaths from road accidents commonly spike during the holiday period when people criss-cross the country visiting relatives.
Aschalew Alemu, Public Relations Chief at East Shoa Zone Police Department of Oromia regional state, said the accident happened when a bus carrying 40 passengers collided with a heavy-duty truck on Thursday evening.
Despite having one of the lowest per capita car ownerships in the world, deadly traffic accidents in Ethiopia are common with blames put on bad roads, flawed driving license issuance system and lax enforcement of road safety.
Three bishops have died in a grisly accident at Wamumu on the Embu-Makutano road, in Kirinyaga County. The African Independent Pentecostal Church of Africa (AIPCA) bishops died on the spot during the 8.30pm accident on Friday.
According to eye witnesses, the bishops were travelling to Nairobi after attending a church function in Embu when their saloon car collided head on with another car at Wamumu on the Embu-Makutano road.
Recently, National police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Paul Nyathi said some motorists were failing to take heed of road traffic safety awareness campaigns held by the police and Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ).
A witness at the scene of the accident said it occurred at about 10 a.m. on Friday. The source said the accident was caused by brake failure of an articulated vehicle conveying drinks and heading toward Onitsha.
Charles Ssebambulidde, the directorate of traffic and road safety spokesperson, told Xinhua that four people from the same family who were traveling to join relatives for the festive holiday were killed on spot in the northern district of Lira.
A fatal accident on the Accra-Cape coast Highway on Wednesday morning left a driver in coma and 20 other people injured. The driver and the injured passengers are receiving treatment at the Winneba Trauma Hospital.
The accident occurred when 3 vehicles crashed at a spot between Gomoa Akotsi and Awutu Breku on the Kasoa-Winneba highway. The vehicles included a Yutong Mini Bus with registration number, GT 3718-12, Hyundai KIA with registration number, GT 6308-17 and Nissan Homy with registration number, GT 7962 -14.
According to the driver of the Yutong bus, Mr Joseph Kofi Kyere, the KIA Driver wrongfully overtook another vehicle and crashed into his vehicle. Mr Kyere said, one of his passengers was in a critical condition since he fell from the vehicle.
When Bulawayo24.com visited the scene of the accident an ambulance was carrying victims to the hospital. An eye witness Bria Musendami blamed the Mozambican haulage driver saying he killed innocent souls from his gross negligence.
However, National police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Paul Nyathi said some motorist were failing to take heed of road traffic safety awareness campaigns held by the police and Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe, hence the increase in accidents this festive season.
National police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Paul Nyathi yesterday said some motorists were failing to take heed of road traffic safety awareness campaigns held by the police and Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ).
This year, 15 people died while there were five deaths last year. We recorded 79 road traffic accidents on Boxing Day compared to 63 on the same day in 2016 while fatal road accidents recorded were 10 compared to five on the same day last year.
Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo tells QTV News that from 22nd December, 2017 at 18 00 hours to 26th December, 2017 at 06 00 hours, Lusaka Province recorded 85 road Traffic Accidents with three deaths followed by Copperbelt with 27 road traffic accidents with one death, Eastern recorded 24 accidents with five deaths, Central had 21 accidents with two deaths and Southern had 19 accidents with one death.
Ms Katongo says North Western had 18 accidents with no death recorded Muchinga had 16 accidents with two deaths, Western had nine accidents with 06 deaths, Luapula had seven accidents with one death, Northern had six accidents with one death while Kenneth Kaunda International Airports had two accidents with no fatality.
She says compared to the same period last year- 2016 from 23rd December, 2016 at 18 00 hours to 27th December, 2016 at 06 00 hours, the country recorded 201 accidents out of which 15 were fatal Road Traffic accidents in which 20 people died, 12 were serious Road Traffic Accidents in which 34 people were seriously injured and 52 were classified as Slight Injury Road Traffic Accidents in which 69 persons sustained minor injuries. 122 were damages only Road Traffic Accidents which did not involve any injuries to persons.
Ms Katongo states that the period between 23rd December, 2017 and 26th December, 2017 was generally peaceful. The Police Spokesperson says the police will continue conducting foot and motorised patrols during both day and night time both highways and in communities to ensure that people celebrate in a crime free environment.
One police officer was killed and 31 passengers injured, following a road accident that occurred along the Kericho-Kisumu highway. Witnesses say the driver of the bus, that was ferrying passengers from Nairobi to Kisumu, lost control of the vehicle and rammed an oncoming truck. The National Transport and Safety Authority have once again been put on the spot, with questions arising as to why the transport authority allowed the bus, operating under a Sacco in Nairobi the green light to ferry passengers on a route he was unfamiliar with.
The reduction in the number of accidents, he added, was due to good driving conduct by some motorists who are taking heed of the ongoing police and the Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe (TSCZ) awareness campaigns.
On Unity Day, a total of 15 people were killed in 13 road traffic accidents, with nine of them caused by speeding and four of them caused by inattention and misjudgement. About 75 people cheated death after the rear wheels of a bus they were travelling in came off near Halfway along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway on Christmas Eve.
Five people died and 5 others were injured in an accident which involved a haulage truck and a cross border commuter omnibus along the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway. The accident occurred at the Runde River Bridge. Three died on the spot and the other 2 died upon admission at Masvingo General Hospital.
Mlungisi Ndlovu (37) of Acute and Cruise village, under Chief Deli in Nyamandlovu was among 15 people who died on the spot when the driver of a truck they were travelling in failed to negotiate a curve at the 35KM peg along the Tsholotsho-Sipepa Road near Jimila Centre on December 2 resulting in the vehicle overturning.
Six others died upon admission to Tsholotsho District Hospital, while two others passed on last weekend at Mpilo Central Hospital. The accident victims were among 69 people who were coming from Nkayi to Tsholotsho to undertake an anti-malaria spraying exercise in Matabeleland North province. Ndlovu died exactly three weeks before his wedding to Dumoluhle Mkhwananzi (24), also of Nyamandlovu.
Mlungisi and Dumoluhle are not the only lovers who were hit by the accident before their wedding day. A young woman who is due to wed early next year, was lucky to survive although she sustained serious facial injuries.
Zanu-PF National Consultative Assembly member Molly Mpofu, who was among those who attended burials of some of victims in Matabeleland North province, said the episode ranks among the most heart-breaking of her life.
Members of Reaction Unit South Africa were called out to the scene by several motorists reporting the incident. Upon arrival it was establised that the driver of a Toyota Etios lost control off his vehicle as it entered Northern Drive. The vehicle collided into a VW Golf before crashing into a metal barrier in the oncoming lane.
An eye witness told Daily Monitor that the accident happened at Wakisanyi village, between River Kafu and Kigumba in Kiryandongo District when a fully packed bus travelling to Gulu collided with a sport utility vehicle (SUV) heading to Kampala.
All the five occupants of the SUV died on the spot. According to him, the driver of the speeding SUV was trying to overtake another car when he collided with the bus registration number UAQ 045Q, which was coming in the opposite direction.
Despite assurances by various government agencies and officials that the current fuel crisis will abate, the situation across the country portends a bleak Christmas, as the scarcity bites harder and thousands are forced to sleep in filling stations to purchase the product.
When the scarcity began, both the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, and the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Maikanti Baru, said normalcy was going to be restored in a matter of days.
When the crisis worsened, following the threat by the Independent Petroleum Products Marketers of Nigeria, IPMAN, to embark on a nationwide strike, Mr. Kachikwu, following the marching orders by the Executive Council of the Federation, FEC, said the problem was going to end in a few days.
Subsequent assurances from the NNPC was that enough had been done, by increasing the number of trucks of petroleum products to major cities to take care of the scarcity. But, days after those assurances, the situation in Lagos, Abuja and most other major cities across the country remain far from normal, as fuel remains in short supply, with attendant high prices.
He said on reaching a section of the Kwahu Tafo-Adawso road the vehicle veered off its lane into the opposite direction and got involved in a head-on collision with a Mercedes Benz bus with registration Number GT 724 F.
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