{"id":79668,"date":"2025-12-04T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79668"},"modified":"2025-12-04T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T15:16:50","slug":"one-police-officer-dies-another-injured-as-truck-fails-brakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/04\/one-police-officer-dies-another-injured-as-truck-fails-brakes\/","title":{"rendered":"One Police Officer Dies, Another Injured as Truck Fails Brakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A police officer was killed and another injured on Wednesday when a mixer truck lost control along the Sani Abacha Expressway near the National Ecumenical Centre in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Police Command said the accident occurred around 2:20 p.m. during the officers\u2019 official duty.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigations revealed the truck, driven by Salman Usman of a Wuse Zone 5 construction company, suffered brake failure before colliding with the officers.<\/p>\n<p>The driver has been arrested, and vehicles involved recovered. CP Miller G. Dantawaye extended condolences and wished the injured officer a speedy recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata A police officer was killed and another injured on Wednesday when a mixer truck lost control along the Sani Abacha Expressway near the National Ecumenical Centre in Abuja. The FCT Police Command said the accident occurred around 2:20 p.m. during the officers\u2019 official duty. Preliminary investigations revealed the truck, driven by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":79669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79668","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\/79668","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=79668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79670,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79668\/revisions\/79670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}