{"id":56936,"date":"2024-11-25T13:56:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=56936"},"modified":"2024-11-25T13:56:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:56:06","slug":"road-accident-claims-eight-lives-along-abuja-kaduna-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/25\/road-accident-claims-eight-lives-along-abuja-kaduna-expressway\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Accident Claims Eight Lives Along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eight passengers lost their lives, and six others sustained injuries in a tragic road accident involving a bus and a trailer at Jere Bridge along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>A community leader who confirmed the incident to reporters on Sunday said the crash occurred around 9:47 p.m. and involved a Sharon bus with registration number KGE 576 PZ.<\/p>\n<p>The bus, reportedly traveling from Zaria to the East, attempted to overtake another vehicle by using a one-way lane and collided with a moving trailer from behind.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the collision claimed the lives of the bus driver and seven passengers instantly, while six others sustained various degrees of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI personally went to the scene with some of my people to support the FRSC officials in evacuating the dead and injured to the hospital,\u201d the community leader said.<\/p>\n<p>An official of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), who participated in the rescue operation but requested anonymity, described the intensity of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to use an extricating machine to remove some of the trapped passengers, especially those seated in the front of the bus,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The corpses were taken to the morgue at Sabon-Wuse General Hospital, where the injured are also receiving treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have urged motorists to exercise caution on the highway, particularly in avoiding dangerous overtaking and one-way driving, to prevent further tragedies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Eight passengers lost their lives, and six others sustained injuries in a tragic road accident involving a bus and a trailer at Jere Bridge along the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway on Saturday night. A community leader who confirmed the incident to reporters on Sunday said the crash occurred around 9:47 p.m. and involved a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":56937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56936","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\/56936","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56938,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56936\/revisions\/56938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}