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Nine people die on the spot in road accident near Kwekwe
08 Sep 2012 at 21:16hrs | Views
Nine people died on the spot while several others were seriously injured when a bus and a lorry side-swiped each other near Kwekwe on Saturday.
National Traffic Police spokesperson Inspector Tigere Chigome said the horrific crash occurred when the Guriro bus, which was travelling from Harare to Kwekwe, attempted to overtake the lorry.
"The bus, which was travelling behind the lorry, tried to overtake at the 55km peg along the Harare-Kwekwe highway.
"The bus driver realised there was an oncoming vehicle and attempted to get back into his lane, but the bus side-swiped the lorry and both drivers lost control of their vehicles causing both vehicles to veer off the road." Insp Chigome said eight of the deceased were travelling in the lorry.
"Eight people from the lorry and one from the bus died on the spot, taking the number of deaths to nine. The number of the injured is not yet to be ascertained as the number of passengers in both vehicles is not known," he said.
The injured were ferried to Harare Cen­tral Hospital. Meanwhile, six people died on Friday after a commuter omnibus they were travelling in collided with a CAG bus in Mutoko.
National Traffic Police spokesperson Inspector Tigere Chigome said the horrific crash occurred when the Guriro bus, which was travelling from Harare to Kwekwe, attempted to overtake the lorry.
"The bus, which was travelling behind the lorry, tried to overtake at the 55km peg along the Harare-Kwekwe highway.
"Eight people from the lorry and one from the bus died on the spot, taking the number of deaths to nine. The number of the injured is not yet to be ascertained as the number of passengers in both vehicles is not known," he said.
The injured were ferried to Harare Cen­tral Hospital. Meanwhile, six people died on Friday after a commuter omnibus they were travelling in collided with a CAG bus in Mutoko.
Source - SN
