A Zambian truck driver has died on the spot while three other international truck drivers escaped unhurt in a fatal road traffic accident in Mpika District in Muchinga Province.
Provincial Police Commissioner Joel Njase confirmed the accident to the Zambia News and Information Services (ZANIS) in Mpika today.
The Police Commissioner has identified the deceased person has Allan Chibesa 27, a resident of TAZARA Township in Mpika District.
Mr Njase disclosed that the accident occurred yesterday around 14:30 hours at Danger hill area along the Great North Road about 25 kilometers north of Mpika town.
He said the accident happened when an unregistered Beiber Tipper truck belonging to China Road Construction Company being driven by Allan Chibesa failed to reduce speed as it was descending on Danger Hill causing him to loss control of the Vehicle and hit on the rear part of a Scania Truck registration number T622 AMX which was heading in the same direction belonging to Kilimanjaro Transport of Tanzania laden with Manganese which was being driven by unknown Tanzanian national.
He added after the first collision, the Beiber Truck further hit on to another Scania Truck registration number T535 DJY Belonging to Lake Oil Company of Tanzania loaded with Diesel which was being driven Ramadhan Nsibu Omary, 33.
Mr Njase narrated that after the second truck was hit; it lost control and collided with an oncoming Faw Truck registration number T735 DEF Belonging to Eastern Union Company also from Tanzania.
The Police Commissioner further said that the Beiber Truck and the first Scania truck were extensively damaged and the second Scania Truck’s cargo tank got deformed while the Faw Truck has a depressed right door and a cracked screen.
The Police Commissioner said the body of the deceased person with multiple fractures has since been deposited at Mpika Urban Clinic Mortuary.
If it was an Indian driving that construction tipper, he could have slowed down or stopped it. But abena Kambwili bena….
Oh no when is this going to end. Yesterday I confronted a young man driving a Toyota Allion with a child in his lap. Instead of thanking me, he rained all sorts of invective on me. David Beckham has been charged with using a cellphone while driving. In Zambia this is normal
Ati “living one person dead” really LT ? I didn’t know that a living* person can be dead.
In there defence, only the living will die….lol
It sounds like the Construction driven by our Zambian man had faulty breaks or was not competent enough. How could he failed to stop it before he could even hit the first truck? And this story has shown us how foreigners have taken over our economy,all the trucks involved belong to Tanzanians and Chinese,on the Zambian road!!
Close border crossings, railway crossings, international airports and enjoy your !mbecility?
@4.1 because you are shallow you can hardly reason that even with open borders you can regulate your policies to serve your people better. Go to the mines and see how many Zambian transporters have contracts there.Have you ever asked why Zambian Buses DONT go to Tanzania but vice versa? Who wins and loses in these open policies? Only Zambia,wake up!
I’m yet to come across a sane Tipper driver. They all look konk to me judging by their reckless driving. So many of them on our Makeni Konga road working for Africon and Oriental Quarries, the contractor working on the Lusaka Decongestion Prooject. Worse still, Oriental tippers rarely have tail lights.
About time RATSA took note.
But the captioned photo is for a Zambia Malawi bus which was involved in an accident sometime last year on great east road.
Are you trying to spice up your news?
I rememeber danger hill in Mpika, that place has a beautiful scenery and many potholes just when you are ascending if going towards Mpika. However, our drivers should always be cautioned to drive within the specified speed, there is tendency for overspeeding and hence these accidents. Tanzanian trucks on the other hand will not slow down even when they notice something ahead, I experience this while attending to an accident where they never slowed down and almost causing an accident at the accident scene.
Sad story
May Lord Jesus Christ control the situation……
But you have captured Irizar Scania bus which has nothing to do with the accident you have reported about.Hmmmmmm