Five Perish in Road Crash

Five people have been confirmed dead in a road crash in Kikuube district. The crash occurred on Wednesday night at around 9 pm at Kisambu cell, Kikuube Town Council, along the Kizirafumbi- Kabaale road. 

 

It involved a taxi registration number UA535BL and a tractor whose registration number is yet to be identified. 

Available information indicates that the taxi that was loaded with passengers from Kampala heading towards Kabaale sub-county collided head-on with an oncoming tractor that was heading towards Kizirafumbi side, killing five people on the spot.

The deceased persons, whose particulars are yet to be established, were all occupants in the taxi, including the driver. They include four male adults and one female adult. 

 

Their bodies have been pickd up by the police who conveyed them to the Kikuube  health Center IV Mortuary pending postmortem examinations and identification, respectively.

Julius Hakiza, Albertine region police spokesperson, says preliminary investigations point to reckless driving by the tractor driver who immediately fled the scene together with the tractor. He says, the hunt for the tractor driver is ongoing while the wreckage of the taxi involved in the accident has been towed to Kikuube police station