{"id":80976,"date":"2025-12-30T20:24:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80976"},"modified":"2025-12-30T20:24:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:24:57","slug":"18-feared-dead-in-jigawa-auto-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/30\/18-feared-dead-in-jigawa-auto-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"18 Feared Dead in Jigawa Auto Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has confirmed that 18 persons were killed in a multiple auto crash on Tuesday in Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa State.<\/p>\n<p>The accident, which involved two Volkswagen cars and a tipper truck, occurred around 12:15 p.m. at Danmasara village along the Dutse-Kwanar Huguma road.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued in Dutse, the state FRSC spokesperson, Corps Route Commander Yahaya Ibrahim, attributed the crash to excessive speeding, tyre burst and loss of control.<\/p>\n<p>He said 20 people were involved in the accident, adding that 18 victims, including children, lost their lives, while the tipper driver and his assistant sustained injuries.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the injured persons and the bodies of the deceased were evacuated to Dutse General Hospital by FRSC rescue teams.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim warned motorists against speeding and poor vehicle maintenance, stressing that tyre bursts remain a major cause of fatal road crashes in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes barely days after another fatal accident in Jigawa, in which 11 people died and 12 others were injured in a lone crash on the Ringim-Sankara-Beguwa road on December 25, also blamed on excessive speeding and tyre burst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), has confirmed that 18 persons were killed in a multiple auto crash on Tuesday in Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The accident, which involved two Volkswagen cars and a tipper truck, occurred around 12:15 p.m. at Danmasara village along the Dutse-Kwanar Huguma road. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80976","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\/80976","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=80976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80978,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80976\/revisions\/80978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}