By Nine people have been confirmed to have lost their lives in an accident that happened on Wednesday morning along the Kampala-Jinja highway.
Witnesses claim that the truck driver chose to crawl into a trench rather than be arrested when they arrived at a traffic police checkpoint.
Then the truck flipped over, suffocating the individuals sitting in the back with the orange sacks.
According to Hellen Butoto, the spokesman for the Ssezibwa area police, nine persons passed away instantly, and their bodies have been taken to the mortuary at Kawolo Hospital for a postmortem.
The accident happened at Bulyantente near the flyover, along the Kampala-Jinja highway in the Buikwe district, at around one in the morning, according to
“The accident involved a single truck Reg No. UBN 533T, a Mitsubishi Fuso truck, white. Unfortunately, the driver is still unknown.”
“Available reports indicate that the truck, carrying sacks of oranges and passengers covered with a tarpaulin, lost control on its way from Jinja to Kampala. It flipped over, and the passengers got covered with the sacks of oranges.”
