{"id":14647,"date":"2024-01-15T19:30:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T19:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=14647"},"modified":"2024-01-15T19:32:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T19:32:02","slug":"fatal-accident-causes-traffic-congestion-in-lugbe-airport-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/15\/fatal-accident-causes-traffic-congestion-in-lugbe-airport-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly Crash Leads to Traffic Jam on Lugbe&#8217;s Airport Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a bustling Monday, increased road activity due to the resumption of construction work and students returning to school led to significant congestion. Unfortunately, the day took a tragic turn with a fatal accident occurring around 3 pm near the popular Aso Estate junction in Lugbe, causing a major traffic jam on Airport Road in Lugbe, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The accident involved a heavy-duty truck carrying sand, which lost control and collided with a moving vehicle on the busy Airport Road. Tragically, a woman inside the vehicle was crushed in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that the truck driver survived, but the condition of the other person involved remains uncertain, raising concerns that she may have succumbed to the accident.<\/p>\n<p>The blocked movement resulted in a traffic standstill on both sides of the highway. Efforts to clear the scene involved personnel from the Federal Road Safety Corps, the police, and the FCTA&#8217;s traffic management department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a bustling Monday, increased road activity due to the resumption of construction work and students returning to school led to significant congestion. Unfortunately, the day took a tragic turn with a fatal accident occurring around 3 pm near the popular Aso Estate junction in Lugbe, causing a major traffic jam on Airport Road in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":14653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-14647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-abuja"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647","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=14647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14654,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14647\/revisions\/14654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}