{"id":13794,"date":"2020-08-17T17:37:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=13794"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:37:12","slug":"road-crash-kills-four-in-morogoro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/road-crash-kills-four-in-morogoro","title":{"rendered":"ROAD CRASH KILLS FOUR IN MOROGORO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author: JOHN NDITI\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> FOUR people died on Monday morning and six others were injured after a minibus they were travelling in rammed into a lorry at Nananane area in Morogoro region along Dar es Salaam- Morogoro highway.<\/p>\n<p>According to Morogoro Regional Police Commander (RPC) Willbroad Mutafungwa, the accident involved a lorry with registration number T 199 EKW with a trailer with registration number T394 DHK that was travelling from Morogoro to Dar es Salaam and a minibus with registration number T149 DNZ that was heading for Morogoro from Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred after the lorry\u2019s trailer accidentally decoupled (detached) itself from the main lorry\u2019s cabin and blocked the road before the minibus rammed into the midsection of the trailer.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers who died in the accident were identified as Athumani Chombo, a prison warden from Bwawani in Morogoro and Said Mwambuta who was a minibus&#8217; driver from Dar es Salaam.<\/p>\n<p>Two bodies were yet to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>According to RPC Mutafungwa, the driver of the truck disappeared after the accident, adding that a manhunt was on.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked YAPI Merkezi for quickly sending to the scene of the accident a crane to lift the minibus and a trailer as they had blocked the highway. Morogoro Referral Hospital Medical Officer in Charge Dr Rita Lyamuya confirmed, receiving four bodies of passengers from the accident and six injured passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Lyamuya said having received information on the accident they quickly deployed ambulances to help in the rescue process and ferry the injured to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Morogoro Regional Commissioner ( RC)Loata Ole Sanare, who also toured the scene of the accident urged owners of vehicles to routinely inspect their cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: JOHN NDITI\u00a0\u00a0 AfricaPress-Tanzania: FOUR people died on Monday morning and six others were injured after a minibus they were travelling in rammed into a lorry at Nananane area in Morogoro region along Dar es Salaam- Morogoro highway. 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