The police in Bugiri has spoken out on a fatal accident involving six motor vehicles at Kibimbi after the bridge along the Iganga-Tororo highway in Bugiri District, resulting in the death of ten people on the spot.
Police in a statement said that the ten motor vehicles were all moving in the same direction towards Tororo, except for one vehicle, registration number KAE 254c/ZA 5971, a tanker loaded with molasses, which was traveling in the opposite direction towards Iganga.
According to the statement, motor vehicle registration number UAW 963m, a Toyota HiAce, attempted to overtake a queue of vehicles mentioned above, however the driver noticed an oncoming vehicle while still overtaking and suddenly tried to join the ceu of the vehicles he was overtaking on the left without knowing that the oncoming vehicle was a trailer tanker loaded with molasses and pulling another trailer hence the rear part of the trailer collided with the taxi, crushing it against another trailer, KBJ 155c/ZD 2621, a Mercedes Benz. Consequently, the trailer tanker lost control, overturned, and caught fire.
10 people, including 8 passengers of the taxi, its driver, and the trailer tanker driver, lost their lives on the spot.
The traffic police responded to the scene immediately, and the bodies were transported to Bugiri hospital mortuary for a post-mortem examination.
