{"id":12777,"date":"2023-12-26T13:00:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-26T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=12777"},"modified":"2023-12-26T13:00:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-26T13:00:34","slug":"fatal-road-crash-claims-4-lives-injures-59-on-kaduna-abuja-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/12\/26\/fatal-road-crash-claims-4-lives-injures-59-on-kaduna-abuja-expressway\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Road Crash Claims 4 Lives, Injures 59 on Kaduna-Abuja Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy struck on the Kaduna-Abuja expressway as at least four individuals lost their lives, and 59 others sustained injuries in a devastating road crash. The Sector Commander of the Kaduna Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Kabir Nadabo, confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The fatal accident involved a trailer (Iveco) with the registration number MKA 99YS and occurred around 03:30hrs on Tuesday at Sabon Sara village along the expressway. The combined rescue teams of RS1.113 Zhipe and RS1.17 Birnin Yero swiftly responded to the scene to conduct rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the details, Nadabo stated, &#8220;Further investigation of the incident shows that 63 people were involved in the crash, 59 got injured, and sadly, 4 were deceased.&#8221; He informed that the injured victims were promptly transported to St. Gerard and AP Smart Hospitals, both located in Kakuri.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The initial findings from the investigation point to overloading of goods and passengers, coupled with driver fatigue, as the primary causes of the tragic crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tragedy struck on the Kaduna-Abuja expressway as at least four individuals lost their lives, and 59 others sustained injuries in a devastating road crash. The Sector Commander of the Kaduna Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Kabir Nadabo, confirmed the incident. &nbsp; The fatal accident involved a trailer (Iveco) with the registration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":12778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12779,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12777\/revisions\/12779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}