{"id":78091,"date":"2025-11-05T08:25:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78091"},"modified":"2025-11-05T08:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T08:27:55","slug":"fatal-trailer-crash-causes-heavy-gridlock-at-dutse-tipper-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/05\/fatal-trailer-crash-causes-heavy-gridlock-at-dutse-tipper-garage\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Trailer Crash Causes Heavy Gridlock at Dutse Tipper Garage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onilede Titi Faith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fatal road accident involving a trailer, a motorcycle, and a Volkswagen Golf 3 caused a major traffic gridlock at Dutse Tipper Garage, Abuja, on Wednesday, leaving motorists and commuters stranded for hours.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said the trailer, which reportedly suffered a brake failure, rammed into a motorcycle carrying two passengers, killing all three on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting congestion led to another accident when a Golf 3 vehicle hit a barricade and crashed into an electric pole, heightening panic in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), and local traffic wardens were deployed to control traffic and clear the wreckage.<\/p>\n<p>The gridlock, which began in the early morning, extended to adjoining areas, including the Dutse-Bwari-Kubwa corridor, forcing drivers to divert through Byazhin and Dutse Alhaji.<\/p>\n<p>Residents have urged authorities to enforce stricter vehicle safety checks and improve traffic management to prevent similar incidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onilede Titi Faith A fatal road accident involving a trailer, a motorcycle, and a Volkswagen Golf 3 caused a major traffic gridlock at Dutse Tipper Garage, Abuja, on Wednesday, leaving motorists and commuters stranded for hours. Eyewitnesses said the trailer, which reportedly suffered a brake failure, rammed into a motorcycle carrying two passengers, killing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78091","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\/78091","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78093,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78091\/revisions\/78093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}