SIX people have died while 17 others were injured when a Mitsubishi Rosa bus and an Isuzu light truck collided head on along the Mongu-Lusaka road at Namasheshe area in Kaoma.
Western Province Permanent Secretary Emmanuel Mwamba said in an interview yesterday that the accident which happened around 15:00 hours on Monday claimed four lives on the spot while two others died at the hospital.
Mr Mwamba said among the 17 people who were currently at Kaoma District Hospital, one was in a critical condition.
Acting Zambia Police Public Relations officer, Rae Hamoonga said the Mitsubishi Rosa registration number ABP 5302 driven by Boston Kamwendo, 20, of TBZ area in Kaoma had 12 passengers and the Isuzu Light Track registration number ABH 885 driven by William Sichilima had five people on board.
“Both drivers died on the spot, two children aged between two and seven and one adult identified as Lillian Chambekele who was mother to the two children also died,” he said.
Mr Hamoonga said the bodies were taken to Kaoma District Hospital mortuary awaiting postmortem.
Another accident.
If we really valued our lives, measures would have been taken to prevent all these rampant needless accidents.
We always wait for disasters then we start wondering why wrong things happen in our country.
How many people have died after hitting into pot-holes? Many more that all the major accidents put together, but it has not clicked in the minded of RTSA to take correctional measures and pot-hole are still killing people.
Why are we not proud of our own country. Why do we do thing like we are doing ourselves a favour?
Its time we started demanding better that what we currently get. its up to us
Just simple following road rules and their enforcement. Carelessness of drivers is and will cost us a great deal. What a thinking mentality! Drivers should be imprisoned for five years if/when they cause an accident involving human life. Just that will make any driver think carefully when driving on the road. Five years for any driver who causes human death, please.
Iwe sure 20 year old driving a 30 seater bus – where are we heading to?… this is bull s.h.i.t. Anyway sad development
12 passengers and not 30, mathematically speaking, it must be a small hiace bus and not a rosa bus.Good roads or not, it all comes to skill combined with responsibility on the job.In Spain, the train driver was on phone, in Italy the bus just rolled off the cliff.In Switzerland, apparently the trains started off at once ad they collided.Where were the operators in the control room for train scheduling?.This myth of believing that experience equals better performance got to be busted.Actuarially experience leads to a compromised attitude towards work or a task.The learning curve stays constant, the more years on the job because of the routine in the work flow.
Now we know who is winning the foreth coming byelections
Lawlessness, carelessness, cluelessness and everythingness doesn’t tie up but just to coin a sad phrase. where on earth do you give a child of 20 to drive a minibus carrying passengers but Zambia??? You are playing a dangerous Russian roulette with people’s lives. When did life become so cheap? We need answers and we need them now. Who employed this young driver with no experience and now has diced with people’s lives. We do not know the circumstances that caused the accident but if you ask any normal reasoning being of any creed, nationality, origin, sex orientation, colour, height, weight, outlook blah blah they will tell you at 20 you can’t drive a bus carrying payin passengers. At 20 you are still a juvenile and immature. When did this driver gain experience? At 14? MAYSRIP!…
Lawlessness, carelessness, cluelessness and everythingness doesn’t tie up but just to coin a sad phrase. where on earth do you give a child of 20 to drive a minibus carrying passengers but Zambia??? You are playing a dangerous game of Russian roulette with people’s lives. When did life become so cheap? We need answers and we need them now. Who employed this young driver with no experience and now has diced with people’s lives. We do not know the circumstances that caused the accident but if you ask any normal reasoning being of any creed, nationality, origin, any orientation, colour, height, weight, outlook blah blah they will tell you at 20 you can’t drive a bus carrying paying passengers. At 20 you are still a juvenile and immature. When did this driver gain experience? At 14?
SATA IS SACRIFICING AGAIN. WAIT SOON U WILL BE SACRIFICED TOO, TO THE SATAnist
The 20 year old must have been driving illegally the laws is that a public service vehicle (PSV) minimum age is 25 years old.
Zambia is finishing itself with accidents,while others agree having war, Zambia has its own one called ‘accident’ 20years you can’t be allowed just like that to drive a bus
As a driver myself..
20yrs of age is not a matter of fact.. licences here in Finland are given at the age of 18yrs. .. qualified to drive private/public transport vehicles, and trucks.. In this accident I suspect that one of the drivers was trying to overtake another vehicle and failed to return to his line before the collusion.
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The problem in Zambia is that vehicles are not inspected for road worthliness yearly, resulting into traffic police officers pocketing from defects on the vehicle in pretext that they are inforcing the law.
Age matters.In Finland the living standard is high enough for parents to afford a car for a teenage.Here in Zambia we start off riding a bicycle kwa misisi but Kuroma they drive macars .Most of the drivers come from kwa,they learn driving parank by borrowing vehicles.At the age of 20 he probably had only started learning how to drive.If investigated he will probably turn out to be chiconductor learning how to drive!
roads are bad period. Every country has bad drivers but may manifest depending on the quality of roads. Dual carriage and two lanes in one direction will be the answer. Think again people.
Condolences.
There was heavy smoke am told – as grass was being burnt along the roadside and no headlamps were switched on. How many of our motorists switch on lights in fog, rain or dust along gravel roads after a vehicle has passed or overtaken? How many people switch on lights on the road half an hour before sunset and half an hour after sunrise ? That’s what the Law says. We are seeing people buy vehicles and learn to drive as they move on public roads. They have no idea of parking at shops/Malls – or reversing out safely. There is need for the Legislature, Law Enforcement (Police/Ratsa)(Executive) and Judiciary to come together to plan to amongst other things: Amendments to provide for stiffer penalties for Drunken Driving and Causing Death by Dangerous Driving. In other countries jail up to…
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