Five people died on the spot in a road accident involving two trucks along the Lusaka Mongu Road on Friday morning.
Central Province Police Chief Simon Mpande confirmed the incident to ZANIS and said that the accident occurred at about 05 hours, and that a Canter light truck registration ABC 3920, hit into the rear side of a bigger ERF model truck, registration AAB3450T.
Mr Mpande said that all of the five deceased were on board the canter which was Lusaka bound from Itezhi-tezhi district and that the ERF heavy truck, which came from Mongu, was stationary on the road.
He said that the deceased persons had been identified as Lizzie Kangongo, Kakoma Njinga, Peggy Mungondo, Veronica Musonda, and Musonda Siame.
Mr Mpande said that the canter had 11 passengers and was also carrying boxes of fresh fish whilst the larger truck had several logs of timber.
The surviving six people on board the canter sustained injuries and have since been taken to Mumbwa hospital for treatment.
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Sorry that the driver caused the death of innoncent people, rest in peace all.Drive with care, do not drink and drive
the only solutions to such is dual carriage ways leading to the main towns.
Sorry for the victims and condolensces to the bereaved families. Road accidents will never end but I wonder if there is even anything like a road safety team to look into the usual causes of such mishaps and preventive measures thereof?
Chabipa mwee…, MTSRIEP
Terrrible incident,MTSRIP
This is sad. Agree Nine Chale. A complete investigation should be carried out and solutions implemented.Freeways or duo carriege ways should be constructed.
The issue here is that this Canter driver ( like most of them ) had lied to his boss that he was just picking up cabbages from soweto only to go to Itezi tezi ,overspeed and lose caution and waste innocent souls like this,
#7 ba Doc Maureen, how did you know these tricks by ba driver because you sound like one of my canter drivers who did the same ka?
Livingstone, I am a former Canter owner. Mine was so courteous and called me from Kapilingozi area saying the truck had broken down and that he had resigned with immidiate effect. When I we to the scene there were some bodies being loaded on a police van. 3 Dead !