{"id":16310,"date":"2020-10-05T18:19:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T18:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/tanzania\/?p=16310"},"modified":"2020-10-05T18:19:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T18:19:02","slug":"drivers-recklessness-to-blame-for-grisly-crash-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/drivers-recklessness-to-blame-for-grisly-crash-police","title":{"rendered":"DRIVER\u2019S RECKLESSNESS TO BLAME FOR GRISLY CRASH &#8211; POLICE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author: LYDIA SHEKIGHENDA<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>AfricaPress-Tanzania:<\/strong> FIVE people have perished in a ghastly road accident in Dar es Salaam, leaving scores injured as a result of what police described as reckless driving.<\/p>\n<p>Dar es Salaam Special Zone Police Commander Lazaro Mambosasa said that the accident occurred early on Monday at Chang&#8217;ombe junction in Temeke District, Dar es Salaam involving a commuter bus and a sand truck.<\/p>\n<p>The SACP noted that preliminary investigation had shown that the accident occurred after a driver with the commuter bus recklessly crossed the red lights, completely disregarding stop signs and ended up crashing with the sand truck.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0SACP Mambosasa, one of the accident victims identified as Richard Oswarld claimed that some commuters had cautioned the driver against reckless and negligent driving but he just ignored them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPassengers on board the commuter bus were concerned about the driver&#8217;s competency but he ignored them and cautioned that they should stop interfering with his work,\u201d Mr Mambosasa noted.<\/p>\n<p>He said five people died on the spot, while ten others sustained injuries.<\/p>\n<p>SACP Mambosasa further said that Police were still investigating the accident and have launched a manhunt for drivers of the two vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe drivers of the two vehicles disappeared after the accident &#8230; Police have embarked on a manhunt to establish their whereabouts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Temeke Regional Referral Hospital Medical in Charge Dr Meshack Shimwela said that his facility received several people, who sustained injuries in the accident and five bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Shimwela confirmed that some of the seriously injured had been referred to MNH as they required intensive care.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have remained with some patients whose conditions are manageable at our hospital,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The MNH on Monday confirmed to have received five people who sustained injuries in the accident.<\/p>\n<p>MNH Head of Communications Unit Mr Aminieli Aligaesha named the injured as William Akida (42), Alicia Teophil (25) and Valentino Lucas (29). Mr Aligaesha added that the names of two patients brought at the hospital were yet to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>The latest reports, however, said that the wounded were yesterday transferred to Muhimbili Orthopaedic Institute (MOI) for further treatment.<\/p>\n<p>MOI Public Relations Officer Patrick Mvungi confirmed to have received four casualties from MNH.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have received four patients of whom two are in critical condition while the other two their condition is improving,\u201d Mvungi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: LYDIA SHEKIGHENDA AfricaPress-Tanzania: FIVE people have perished in a ghastly road accident in Dar es Salaam, leaving scores injured as a result of what police described as reckless driving. Dar es Salaam Special Zone Police Commander Lazaro Mambosasa said that the accident occurred early on Monday at Chang&#8217;ombe junction in Temeke District, Dar es [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":16296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8],"tags":[528,497],"class_list":["post-16310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","tag-lazaro-mambosasa","tag-road-accidents"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DRIVER\u2019S RECKLESSNESS TO BLAME FOR GRISLY CRASH - POLICE - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"FIVE people have perished in a ghastly road accident in Dar es Salaam, leaving scores injured as a result of what police described as reckless\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/drivers-recklessness-to-blame-for-grisly-crash-police\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DRIVER\u2019S RECKLESSNESS TO BLAME FOR GRISLY CRASH - POLICE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FIVE people have perished in a ghastly road accident in Dar es Salaam, leaving scores injured as a result of what police described as reckless\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/drivers-recklessness-to-blame-for-grisly-crash-police\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-05T18:19:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2020\/10\/a0ae5deca4571707f26181b3b805a9dc.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1040\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"780\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/drivers-recklessness-to-blame-for-grisly-crash-police#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/community\/drivers-recklessness-to-blame-for-grisly-crash-police\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"DRIVER\u2019S RECKLESSNESS TO BLAME FOR GRISLY CRASH &#8211; 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