on the Kitwe-Ndola Road.
One more victim in the Kitwe Road Traffic Accident involving a Rosa minibus and a truck has died, bringing the death toll to 14.
Wusakile Mine Hospital Medical Manager Ronny Cheelo confirmed the death of the latest accident victim.
The Kitwe-Ndola Highway accident occurred when a 26-seater minibus,registration number ACP 5143, headed to Ndola with passengers on board collided with the truck laden with bags of mealie meal.
The accident happened around 14:00 hours Tuesday at Kamfinsa stream on the stretch where one way of the dual carriageway has been closed to facilitate maintenance, leaving vehicles to share the remaining side.
Meanwhile, another Road Traffic Accident involving a Hino light truck headed in the direction of Kitwe and a truck coming from the opposite direction was witnessed on the Kitwe-Ndola dual carriageway yesterday.
The light truck registration number ALM 6157 collided with a South African-bound truck registration number B8 34APV at Maposa area, a few kilometres away from the spot of the Tuesday fatal accident.
The two vehicles were sharing the remaining side of the closed dual carriageway when they collided. The people on board escaped unhurt.
Copperbelt Permanent Secretary Stanford Msichili has called on the contractor doing the rehabitation of the Kitwe-Ndola dual carriage to speed up the works to curb fatalities being recorded on the highway.
Mr Msichili who on Tuesday visited the scene of the accident said the accident could have been avoided had part
of the dual carriageway been open to traffic flow.
Msichili, you should ask the contractor to provide sensible detours, not speed up works. Speed to you means what? Two accidents within a space of a week and all you can say is speed up??? Please examine immediate contingency to address the ‘sharing’ of that detour.
The unprecedented fatalities being recorded on the Ndola-Kitwe highway following the closure of one side of the dual carriage is clear testimony that dual carriage could drastically reduce collisions and consequently the needless carnage we are seeing.
its for our own safety and improved efficiency in the delivery of goods and services that all major highways be upgraded to dual carriage ways.
after all it for the good development of our country.
I know money is not and will never be an issue for these projects
They should be advised to put barriers between the two lanes so that no one overtakes the other. This way will ensure that accidents do not just happen.
we need duo carriage ways….
but Sata is busy giving out plots to corrupt Indians near the Road…
where have we gone wrong kansi?
where is the 50m away from the road rule gone? that’s why we need new constution..
The accident happened due to driver error, not because the other side of the road is closed. Drivers should just be patient and drive carefully. When you rush, you will crash.
The accident was not because of driver error, it was caused by a pothole which the driver wanted to avoid and ended up loosing control of the truck resulting in a head on collision
The accident happened due to driver error, not because the other side of the road is closed. Drivers should just be patient and drive carefully. When you rush, you will crash.
Much as I sympathise with families of the victims, the fault is NOT with the road contractor. The FAULT IS ALWAYS WITH THE DRIVERS. I have been on Zambian roads and I have a rough idea how stupid a Zambian driver is.
Mwembeshi, don’t stereotype. Not all Zambian drivers are stupid.
Even just from some of the comments here you can tell why accidents happen and why some people die due to road accidents. Very *****ic reasoning and for one to think it is from this same group of people that we are supposed to elect future presidents? My God, Zambia has no chance of development ever!
Yesterday I was on new road, the one which has just been tarred. POT HOLES have already developed, big ones for that matter. PF’s plans of massive infrastructure development as a way of campaigning in 2016 is backfiring, because the workmanship is very poor. As a result they will have nothing to show the people what they have achieved from 2011. This road was better than the Solwezi Chingola road as well as township roads in Chingola.
The chinese road contractors do not have laboratories at their sites to test the mixtures and thickness of everything that is needed to be used in relation to the heavy haulage vehicles and the frequency of the load being transported. They use traditional methods of laying concrete at the base and then tar on top regardless of how busy the road is.
When Phoenix was doing these jobs,it was within an hour and the road was ready!
What we get now is 90 days.
MWEBANTU THIS IS SATANISM AT ITS HIGHEST PEAK
We all know this is Satanism. For past three years Zambia Has experienced fatal road accidents. Please Church leaders and Zambians pray for this country.
PF why has this short stretch of the road, 59Km, take this long? Just pay the contractor to finish the roadworks in time. You are full of dochi kubeba even when it concerns people’s lives. Be transparent and accountable, if you have no cash just open up the two roads as they are.
May GOD INTERVANE.
Nation full of Ostriches!
The road u are talking about will not be the same road we knew a long time ago. The duel carriage way is gone and died. This one is a useless Tanzanian contractor and he is just going to eat our money if our Government wont do anything . The new road has stated having potholes they have not even finished working on it imagine cheep and rubbish works. Any one who wants to believe me should have a feel of it and see what am talking about. RDA U SHOULD GO THERE AND SEE WHAT THIS CONTRACTOR IS DOING PLEASE DO SOMETHING BEFORE WE CRY FOUL ON U.