{"id":61252,"date":"2025-02-14T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61252"},"modified":"2025-02-14T14:48:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:48:36","slug":"16-dead-52-injured-in-kano-road-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/14\/16-dead-52-injured-in-kano-road-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"16 Dead, 52 Injured in Kano Road Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Abaire Olanlesi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Kano Sector Command, has confirmed the death of 16 persons and injuries to 52 others in a road crash on Friday at the Muhammadu Buhari Interchange Flyover in Hotoro, Kano.<\/p>\n<p>The accident involved a trailer DAF carrying goods and 71 passengers, which lost control due to overspeeding, according to a preliminary report.<\/p>\n<p>The FRSC, in collaboration with the Nigeria Police Force, quickly responded to the scene for rescue operations, and the injured were taken to Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The Sector Commander, CC UM Matazu, has dispatched an investigation team to probe the incident.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed condolences to the families of the deceased and wished the injured a swift recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Matazu urged all motorists to adhere to traffic laws and cautioned against overloading vehicles, stressing that such practices increase the risk of fatal crashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abaire Olanlesi The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Kano Sector Command, has confirmed the death of 16 persons and injuries to 52 others in a road crash on Friday at the Muhammadu Buhari Interchange Flyover in Hotoro, Kano. The accident involved a trailer DAF carrying goods and 71 passengers, which lost control due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61252","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\/61252","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61254,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61252\/revisions\/61254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}